Coco Chanel Quotes
My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.
Quotes to Explore
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
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Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
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I don't want to be alone at 80 years old, dripping in diamonds - having never helped anyone. That's not my path. That's not what I care about. That's not what excites me.
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Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
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I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.
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I'd pick a young white guy over an old white guy for president anytime because the younger guy is more likely to have been influenced by the great social changes of the '60s and '70s.
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I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.
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I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.
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I'm Russian: I'm into men, diamonds, and caviar.
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I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.
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The world's most deadly disease is 'hardening of the attitudes.'
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I just want to be a good storyteller.
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Cate Blanchett and others, they get this broad range of all these cool people they can play. Some women really do get it all. For me, it is the same thing that happens over and over. I should change that and maybe write my own thing.
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Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.
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It is typical of Schumann's musical thinking to construct this complex network of references outside his music-to quote Beethoven, and then to have Beethoven's distant beloved refer to Clara. But this should give a clue to the nature of Schumann's achievement. It is not Schumann's music that, refers to Clara but Beethoven's melody, the 'secret tone.'
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In freely choosing to serve as the agents of divine purpose, angels are the living expression of the prayer 'Thy will be done.'
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Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.
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There is no love, there is only the lie we tell ourselves that things are more important than they actually are, that our lives will have meaning beyond all the other lives that have come before us and been forgotten, that there is hope in any of this.
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No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But there's a vast difference, surely, between Dickens saying Indians should be exterminated and a Dave Eggers writing eloquently about the NSA, but not being as outspoken on American military power abroad.
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You look back and see pictures of yourself, or hear an old song, and you know where that came from or why you were working on that - but you don't want to do that again. You don't necessarily hate it, but you're a very different person now, so, in that way you do.
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My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.
