Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes
I do not know at what moment in life, if ever, we realise that we are neither George Sands nor Juliets. Of course, if we are not beautiful, we recognise early that beauty is nothing.Elizabeth Bibesco
Quotes to Explore
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
Vanessa Mae -
The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
Aaron Swartz -
I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
Zainab Salbi -
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
Randy Neugebauer -
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
Magnus Carlsen -
I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
Rajiv Ouseph
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
Laura Wasser -
The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
Venus Williams -
I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
Fatos Nano -
I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
Randy Harrison -
My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.
Adam Green -
I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
Salman Rushdie
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
Magic Johnson -
The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
Adam McKay -
I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
Tali Lennox -
It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
Yitzhak Rabin -
I have a biology degree, okay?
Rand Paul -
The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.
Aaron Ciechanover
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There's an element of fervor and passion that you can't describe when it comes to people who, their faith literally might cost them their life.
Joel Houston Hillsong United -
I think a great athlete transcends eras.
Dan Jenkins -
What greater challenge today.. ..to disorder and insensitivity; what greater propaganda for integration than this emotionally intense, dramatic division of space? quote in 1943, discussing the art of Piet Mondrian
Ad Reinhardt -
We will not lose this election for lack of money.
Ed Rendell -
Many times I'll improvise it, which isn't done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised.
Christopher Guest -
I do not know at what moment in life, if ever, we realise that we are neither George Sands nor Juliets. Of course, if we are not beautiful, we recognise early that beauty is nothing.
Elizabeth Bibesco