Germaine Greer Quotes

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

Germaine Greer

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• In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • American
  • Die

• At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • How
  • Chickens

• I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • World
  • Music
  • Long

• So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • You
  • Word
  • Crew

• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Ideas
  • Air
  • Breathing

• Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord's sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Body
  • Blood
  • Say

• The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Politics
  • Bible
  • Special

• I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.

  

  Wale
  • Think
  • Game
  • Weird

• We condemn any kind of abuse of Muslim women or women anywhere in the world.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • World
  • Women
  • Kind

• I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • News

• Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Rich
  • River
  • Pure

• Why should he remember her? Why should she remember him? She had other things to think about. She was a grown woman. She had to face life. Even if all life had to show her was a locked door, and behind the locked door, no room.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Why
  • She

• El corazón es un infinito de pesadísimas cadenas, encadenando puñaditos de aire.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I think Usher is a bonafide superstar because he's very honest in his songs, and people can relate to that, especially in the feelings and textures of his voice. He is one of the best.

  

  Diplo
  • People

• I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Mother
  • Kind
  • Parent

• If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.

  

  Don Drysdale

• I'm kind of a complainer, but not about getting old. I complain about, you know, something that can be fixed.

  

  Martha Stewart

• I've been pretty lucky. Every single thing I've done has meant so much to me and has been like a stepping stone to something different.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Different
  • Done
  • Pretty

• I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Energy
  • Always
  • Try

• I thought we were despondent when we came out of that regular time, going into overtime and played like it the first three minutes, but we found some energy at the end.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Minutes

• A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this marriage of songs that structurally are quite bluesy. Sound-wise, there's a lot of indie as well. But you can't really say I'm pop-blues, because that's insulting to blues. It just can't exist.

  

  George Ezra
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?

  

  Margaret Carlson
  • Good
  • Bad

• Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

  

  Germaine Greer
  • Energy
  • Exertion
  • Psyche