Lawrence Durrell Quotes

It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Lawrence Durrell

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• There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Long
  • Political

• The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Country
  • American
  • America

• I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.

  

  Iman
  • Father
  • Science
  • Political

• The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Myself
  • Weird
  • Write

• Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we're wearing - if it's red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks. Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visualise myself scoring goals or doing well.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Man
  • Night

• He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • History
  • Past
  • Study

• You don't project yourself in the Hall of Fame as a player. It's only during that five-year period where people start asking about it, and it doesn't seem real until it happens.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Real
  • Player

• That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Job
  • Attention
  • Try

• Everything that I have is natural – braid, nails – I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Natural
  • Cosmetics
  • Provinces

• Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Miracles

• What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's all that counts.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Beautiful
  • Counts
  • Pal

• I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Live
  • Television
  • Radio

• I have always said that after sport, I wanted a life, I wanted an opportunity, I wanted to be able to do something. And if something happens - the economy falls out or the dollar is worthless, anything could happen - you have to be ready to work. And I'm ready.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Work
  • Opportunity

• I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Bad
  • Happy
  • Think

• I used to ride motorbikes and drive cars like everything was a racetrack; it was ridiculous. It wasn't because I thought it was cool; it was just because I loved living on the edge. But I've chilled.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Cool
  • Thought
  • Ride

• As he had so many times before, Taleswapper addressed a few silent words to God, which always came down to this question: Why do you put us to so much trouble, when it all comes to naught in the end?...And, as usual, God had nothing much to say to Taleswapper when his questioning was done.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • God
  • Done
  • Why

• Perhaps I’m hiding from myself. Perhaps I don’t want to be what I’m supposed to be. Or perhaps I don’t want to keep living the life I already started to live.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Live

• Ideology is a system of beliefs, held in common by the members of a collectivity.

  

  Talcott Parsons

• This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like a living sea. These gay old lilies will not shrink To draw their life from death of mine, And I will give my body's fire To make blue flowers on this vine. "O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Soul
  • Giving
  • Gay

• Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.

  

  Richard Parks Bland
  • People
  • Strong
  • Democracy

• All my favorite artists were pretty serious in the sense that their music was something I could sink my teeth into, from Peter Gabriel to U2 to these artists that made me want to read the lyrics and dig into it.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Serious

• My vibration is my point of attraction.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Attraction
  • Vibrations

• I don't analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.

  

  Finneas
  • Songs
  • Curiosity
  • Songwriter

• It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

  

  Lawrence Durrell