Louis de Bernieres Quotes

What keeps me going is my children.

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• My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • She
  • Mother
  • Mom

• Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Money
  • Fashion
  • Forget

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Me
  • Now
  • Blonde

• I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Die
  • Beginning
  • Hands

• I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Career
  • Passion
  • Gift

• The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life
  • Best
  • Adventure

• For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • God
  • Respect

• War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Political
  • Military

• The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • America
  • Leadership
  • Values

• Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Here

• Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Real
  • Power

• I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Music
  • She

• Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Fun
  • Always
  • Reassuring

• With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Work
  • God

• The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Die
  • End
  • Civilization

• People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• People who would never think of dealing in racial or sexual stereotypes will still throw in a fat joke because it's still OK. Really?

  

  Al Roker
  • People

• We started off with this fairly grand concept of, if you were to tackle it at a children's level, eliminating war. What would you do?

  

  Jim Henson
  • Children
  • War

• It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it.

  

  Charlie Watts The Rolling Stones
  • People

• To me the most important thing in a picture is roundness captured in height and breadth. Roundness in the plane, depth in the feeling of the plane.

  

  Max Beckmann
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Picture

• What keeps me going is my children.

  

  Louis de Bernieres
  • Children