Lawrence Durrell Quotes

the confluent smallpox - invented perhaps as the cruellest remedy for human vanity (II)

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• Golf is played with the arms.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Golf
  • Played
  • Arms

• When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • School
  • Thing
  • Athletics

• I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Great
  • Sun
  • Makeup

• I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Independent
  • Democrat

• When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Dark

• I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Strange
  • Analysis
  • Sight

• You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Guy
  • Day
  • Fighting

• I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Gangster

• I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impact and some lasting value? Is it worth it for me to spend two years of my middle-aged life on this?' They're my criteria, and I think that's led me to more urgent projects.

  

  Larry Charles
  • Life
  • Value
  • Impact

• I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Friend

• My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Me
  • Husband
  • Too Much

• In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Fighting
  • Republican
  • Democrat Party

• I like to be who I am.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Like

• Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Up
  • Change
  • Win

• Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Time
  • Country
  • Energy

• You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • May
  • House

• To be honest, for me, my main workout is when I'm on stage. Even though I make pop music, I don't think I perform in the classic 'pop star' sort of way. I'm very active on stage; I always end up dripping in sweat afterwards. It's always like a full-on, wild performance, so that's pretty much like my exercise, I would say.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Up
  • Music
  • Pretty

• By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • People
  • Mind
  • Family

• What people eat is not well documented. Food writers prefer to focus on fashionable, expensive restaurants whose creative dishes reflect little of what most people are eating.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • People
  • Food
  • Focus

• Confidence is key. Always. Even when we might have messed up.

  

  Elizabeth Tan
  • Confidence
  • Key
  • Messed Up

• I guess there might come a point when I will want to live an anonymous life. I'm only at the start of my career, so I'm sure that moment will come, but I know how blessed I am to have this platform on which to speak and influence.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Career

• the confluent smallpox - invented perhaps as the cruellest remedy for human vanity (II)

  

  Lawrence Durrell