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

• Dominus virtutum Has gathered together those that were in slavery, And before I existed He had perceived me. May I be ardently devoted to God! And before I desire the end of existence, And before the broken foam shall come upon my lips, And before I become connected with wooden boards, May there be festivals to my soul!

  

  Taliesin
  • God
  • May
  • Together

• Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

  

  David Hare
  • Knowledge
  • Wind

• The best way to propel the economy may be to encourage different parts of the country to go their own way.

  

  Anand Mahindra
  • Different
  • Country
  • May

• How, for example, did Obama get elected as a complete unknown? ... There is a one word answer: slavery. America's national guilt over slavery continues to benefit Obama, who ironically is not himself descended from slaves.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • America
  • Slavery
  • Unknown

• Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.

  

  Richard Adams
  • Children
  • Persons
  • Effects

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

  

  Germaine Greer
  • Forever
  • Young
  • Immature