Anais Nin Quotes

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anais Nin

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• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Earth

• I have my dad's shape. No booty.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Dad
  • Shape
  • Booty

• We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Great
  • Music
  • Country

• I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Want
  • Flying
  • Talk

• It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • You
  • March
  • Forward

• Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis for artificial intelligence to develop over time.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Time
  • Change
  • Intelligence

• I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Comedy
  • Like
  • Would

• I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I have had tendinitis a couple of times, so I try to be really careful. It takes patience and persistence to overcome injury.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Time
  • Couple
  • Patience

• Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • God
  • Bad
  • Moon

• Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had.

  

  Walter Martin
  • She
  • Opinion
  • Gift

• President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We didn't get it, and we were disappointed. But we did not go out and form a corporation to pay for it. That would have been a problem.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • School
  • Problem
  • President

• Of course there are peace-loving Muslims.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Peace
  • Course
  • Muslims

• My eighth-grade year, I was home-schooled. I'd basically wake up, go to the gym in the morning, do a little bit of school, go to practice, do a little more school, then go back to practice. My mom had a crockpot and a mini traveling oven, so we'd be cooking and eating dinners at the gym.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • Up
  • School
  • Home

• The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Business
  • Environment
  • Enemy

• The man that makes a character makes foes.

  

  Edward Young
  • Character

• Honolulu, Hawaii: (At a luau) '...a unique native stunt though the Hawaiian food we were made to eat was too revolting for words....One got rather tired of the native songs & longed for some of our tunes' (14 April 1920)

  

  Edward VIII
  • Words
  • Food
  • Unique

• We really pride ourselves on the notion that what makes our program special is that we really do our very best to make sure that everything we do is culturally responsive and relevant.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Pride

• The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

  

  Zeno of Elea
  • Science
  • Race
  • Example

• In numerous years following the war the Federal government ran a heavy surplus. It could not pay off it's debt, retire its securities, because to do so meant there would be no bonds to back the national bank notes. To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Money
  • War

• I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Beautiful
  • Mom
  • Grandmother

• I love being around people that are smarter than me, that think faster than me. So even if you're a dork, and you wear stupid clothes, and you make a fool of yourself, and everyone makes fun of you, and you're just an idiot-I don't care about the context. I don't care. If you're genius and I recognize it, I kind of dig that.

  

  Courtney Love
  • People
  • Fun
  • Stupid

• The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

  

  Anais Nin