Andrea Dworkin Quotes

I know a hell of a lot about intercourse. I wish I knew less.

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• I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Fun
  • Like
  • Listen

• When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Song

• Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Words
  • Vague
  • Properly

• That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Great
  • Humanity
  • Tree

• Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Poetry

• I'm a little angry in life.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Angry
  • Little

• Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Party
  • Become
  • Democrats

• I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • World
  • God
  • Done

• I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • American
  • Think

• We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Guidance
  • Professor

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• I'm blind without my glasses.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Blind
  • Without
  • Glasses

• People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• People want opportunity so they can earn security.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Want
  • Opportunity

• I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Theatre
  • Movies
  • Modeling

• First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

  

  Saint Basil
  • World
  • Food
  • Silence

• Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith

• The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend - and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him. The uses of prayer are thus only subjective.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Believe
  • Wish

• The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

  

  Ann Landers
  • Happy
  • Wish
  • Single

• Mantle didn't want to stick out, but he did. He didn't wish to be treated as special, but he was. He was uncomfortable being the center of attention, but he was the centerfielder for the most famous franchise in sports.

  

  Jane Leavy
  • Attention
  • Wish
  • Sports

• I have lived in many places over the years - sung in many languages too but hearing the Treorchy Male Choir made me realise how deep my feelings are, and always will be, for our beloved Land of Song. Glorious years of hard work and glorious music! Well done! I am only half Welsh - but these sincere good wishes and congratulations come from all of me!

  

  Petula Clark
  • Wish
  • Language
  • Feelings

• I know a hell of a lot about intercourse. I wish I knew less.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Wish