Gertrude Atherton Quotes

There is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.

Gertrude Atherton

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• I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.

  

  Natasha Calis
  • Different
  • Family
  • Friends

• When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • World
  • Rest
  • New York

• Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Home
  • Easy
  • Coffee

• Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Music
  • Different
  • Real

• I don't do office work at home.

  

  A. K. Antony
  • Work
  • Home
  • Office

• Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Country
  • Style
  • Vision

• I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Kind

• I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• I surrender to my directors. I do that because I respect them immensely. In fact, a director's talent scares me. I admit that they're more intelligent than me, and I submit to that, as an assistant director does. Even when I have suggestions to make, I don't state them strongly.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Respect
  • Intelligent
  • Talent

• New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Work
  • Myself
  • New York

• She had a very agreeable smile; it did not light up her face suddenly, but seemed rather to suffuse it by degrees with charm. It hesitated for a moment about her lips and then slowly travelled to those great shining eyes of hers and there softly lingered.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Great
  • She

• We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests... I profess I could never satisfy myself on the justness of this war, but from the authority of the parliament to maintain itself in its rights; and in this cause I hope to prove myself an honest man and single-hearted.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • War
  • Hope

• Th' only way t' entertain some folks is t' listen t' 'em.

  

  Kin Hubbard

• But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.

  

  Anna Neagle
  • Planning
  • Solitude

• The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Beginning

• The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Life
  • Freedom

• By ancestry, I was born to rule.

  

  Nelson Mandela

• This 51 Phoenix Racing team, I love them to death. They've got my back, I've got theirs.

  

  Kurt Busch
  • Death
  • Team
  • Phoenix

• Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?

  

  Richard Aldington
  • Women
  • Art
  • Forget

• The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.

  

  Neil Cross
  • Writer
  • Fiction
  • Genre

• The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.

  

  Albert Claude
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Control

• We see no objects in our universe that could become wormholes as they age.

  

  Kip Thorne
  • Age
  • Universe
  • Objects

• There is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Art
  • Writer