Germaine Greer Quotes

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

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• I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Real
  • Think
  • Psychology

• My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Father
  • Child
  • Encouragement

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Time
  • Light
  • Brain

• I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Up
  • Like
  • Feel

• A new era of responsibility is here.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Responsibility
  • New
  • Here

• Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.

  

  Raf Simons
  • America
  • Happy
  • City

• The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Rose
  • Fair
  • Striving

• I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Never
  • Had

• If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • History
  • Now
  • Greatest

• At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Up
  • School
  • Said

• Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • You
  • Morning
  • Alarm

• I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Think
  • Kind
  • Too Much

• Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Important
  • Society
  • Far

• When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Up
  • Business
  • Career

• All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • Nothing
  • Run
  • They Say

• Endurance is mind over matter.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Mind
  • Endurance

• Metal music is the only art form that is totally dependent for its success on the idea that idiots buy cheap trash are getting ripped off.

  

  Manfred Mann
  • Music
  • Art
  • Success

• There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Men
  • Lies

• Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

  

  George Wald
  • Evolution
  • Editing
  • Authorship

• I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

  

  George Hickenlooper
  • Canvas

• There are many ways to relax a problem, and we’ve seen three of the most important. The first, Constraint Relaxation, simply removes some constraints altogether and makes progress on a looser form of the problem before coming back to reality. The second, Continuous Relaxation, turns discrete or binary choices into continua: when deciding between iced tea and lemonade, first imagine a 50–50 “Arnold Palmer” blend and then round it up or down. The third, Lagrangian Relaxation, turns impossibilities into mere penalties, teaching the art of bending the rules..

  

  Brian Christian
  • Art
  • Problem
  • Rules

• We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. The days are always dark enough. There is no need for us to emphasize the fact by spreading further gloom.

  

  George Madison Adams
  • Enough
  • Leadership
  • Encouragement

• You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

  

  Germaine Greer
  • Forever
  • Young
  • Immature