Louis Auchincloss Quotes

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

Louis Auchincloss

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• The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Believe
  • Place
  • Ocean

• Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Career
  • Football
  • inspirational

• We are looking for rebuilding Hungarian defence Industry with India's participation.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Looking
  • Participation

• Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Friends
  • Future
  • Past

• When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Never
  • Practice
  • Old

• Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Life
  • Live
  • Money

• All the media are horrible.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Media
  • Horrible

• The thing about Donald Trump, he is a different candidate.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Different
  • Trump
  • Donald Trump

• It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Life
  • Remember
  • True

• A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Different
  • Responsibility
  • Story

• I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me think anyone would care what I had to say about anything!

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Art
  • Mom
  • Attitude

• The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • May
  • Truth
  • Fall

• I don't like to dabble in anything I don't do well. I don't talk politics.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Politics
  • Talk
  • Anything

• I suppose the worst case scenario is that people will get to the point where they can't actually afford to make what they want to make creatively. The industry is collapsing.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Want
  • Worst

• On great teams - the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict, and then commit to decisions - team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see something that isn't serving the team.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Great
  • Team

• The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Matter
  • Stars

• If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Deep
  • Dreams
  • Achieve

• Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat-wearing Muslims.

  

  Yann Martel
  • God

• I don't rap to get the women, fuck bitches. Give me a fat slut that cooks and does dishes.

  

  Eminem
  • Women
  • Rap

• I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.

  

  Stephen Dillane
  • Character
  • Attention
  • Creating

• Actually, a myth is a story that is not just not true, but it's a story that is especially true. And I think the myth of Jesus is especially true.

  

  Jay Parini
  • True
  • Jesus

• I've built 'The Conversation' from the ground up with no business training.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Up
  • Business
  • Training

• He sees himself in his lover as if in a mirror, not knowing whom he sees, And when they are together, he too is released from pain, and when apart, he longs as he himself is longed for; for reflected in his heart is love's image, which is love's answer. But he calls it, and believes it, not love but friendship…

  

  Mary Renault
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Pain

• We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

  

  Louis Auchincloss