Annie Proulx Quotes

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.

  

  Banks
  • Up
  • Important
  • Think

• Epic were adamant that I should carry on being me. They liked the way I look, my clothes, hats... nothing's changed really.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Me
  • Look
  • Clothes

• A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Anything

• A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Girl
  • Interesting
  • Sexy

• How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Better
  • Half
  • Often

• Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Dream
  • Child
  • Broken

• I think people are enticed by indie rap and every time you have a group going against the grain, they're gonna be like, 'Wow, you did it yourself in 2012, that's impressive - how did you do it? What're you doing that's different? And how can I be a part of it?'

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• If the refugees return to Israel – Israel will cease to exist.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

• It is also possible for a woman to go back to a man’s room, tell him she doesn’t want to have intercourse, mean it, start kissing, have intercourse, and then wish she hadn’t in the morning. How? Kissing is like eating potato chips. Before we know it, we’ve gone further than we said we would.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • She
  • Wish
  • Morning

• A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Home
  • Smile

• I joke that I've always had this sort of insatiable 'big sis' complex - which is odd given that I am the baby of the family with no sisters! It's the reason I have such a powerful desire to connect with girls and encourage them. So, it's a natural fit for me to have a job that's like the editorial version of an older sister to a million girls.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Family
  • Job
  • Desire

• A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Live
  • Imagination

• It turns out that many of the Trump voters who had said they wanted to burn it all down meant it, and they are taking to the task with great relish.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • Great
  • Trump

• Time seems to slow down after the winter holiday. New York loses all of its winter romance and is just cold.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Time
  • Cold
  • Winter

• I don't know if you'll see me jumping out of planes anytime soon.

  

  Jason Biggs

• When societies go backwards and slide into authoritarianism, nationalism, and tribalism, machismo and sexism are also emboldened.

  

  Elif Safak

• We have a rule that if you check in code, you have to maintain it. So I mostly code on the side. I don't check in code anymore.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

• For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'.

  

  David Cameron
  • Long
  • Society
  • Law

• I want to be affirmatively proud of what I have made my way through. And to do that, in the same way I had to tell my father and my family and my friends that I was gay, I need to not hide this anymore.

  

  Christine Quinn
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Father

• We've seen a tremendous rise in the level of anti-Muslim bigotry in our society - and against minorities of all kinds - but we've also seen a tremendous rise in support.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Society
  • Support
  • Rise

• Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy.

  

  Bjorn Lomborg
  • Time
  • Energy

• The more populous the world and the more intricate its structure, the greater must be its fundamental insecurity. A world-structure too elaborately scientific, if once disrupted by war, revolution, natural cataclysm or epidemic, might collapse into a chaos not easily rebuilt.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • World
  • War
  • Revolution

• Quoyle large, white, stumbling along going nowhere

  

  Annie Proulx