Elizabeth Ashley Quotes
The flip side of success is fear. And fear is the devil. And success is the devil's dope.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
-
This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
-
I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
-
The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
-
Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
-
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
-
We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.
-
I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.
-
Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
-
I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.
-
Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
-
Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.
-
The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
-
The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
-
You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
-
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
-
In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
-
But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.
-
The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.
-
Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it." Francie wished adults would stop telling her that. Already the load of thanks in the future was weighing her down. She figured she'd have to spend the best years of her womanhood hunting up people to tell them that they were right and to thank them.
-
Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.
-
The flip side of success is fear. And fear is the devil. And success is the devil's dope.
