Ava Gardner Quotes

I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.

Ava Gardner

• Cigarette
• Growing Old
• Scotch

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• The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Words
  • Law
  • Compass

• Everyone's got their problems and their demons, but when we get onstage and play as five, that really all goes away, and that's really all I look at.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Play
  • Problem
  • Looks

• An angry man can only get so far until he reconciles the way he thinks.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Man
  • Way
  • Reconciles

• Music is first, lyrics are secondary.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • First
  • Lyrics
  • Music Is

• It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Action
  • Grandfather
  • Bunch

• Valentine's Day is like Armistice Day - you declare a truce.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Declare
  • Valentine's Day
  • Truce

• You're pouting. Pouting is not allowed. It's too cute.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Cute
  • Not
  • Allowed

• ... photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a shutter. A photograph appears to be self-generated - as though it had created itself.

  

  Abigail Solomon-Godeau
  • Photograph
  • Created
  • Marks

• Not so in haste, my heart! Have faith in God and wait; Although he linger long, He never comes too late. He never comes too late, He knoweth what is best: Vex not thyself in vain; Until he cometh, rest. Until he cometh, rest. Nor grudge the hours that roll: The feet that wait for God Are soonest at the goal. Are soonest at the goal. That is not gained by speed; Then hold thee still, my heart, For I shall wait his lead.

  

  Bradford Torrey
  • Goal
  • Lead
  • Vain

• We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

  

  Gerald Brenan
  • Fear
  • Qualities
  • Naive

• The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture surveys the forms and uses of epigraphic writing from classical antiquity to the twentieth century.

  

  Geoffrey Nunberg
  • Writing
  • Culture
  • Interest

• I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

  

  Wilhelm Steinitz
  • Played
  • French
  • Dullest

• The war has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage.

  

  Emperor Hirohito
  • War
  • Developed
  • Japan's Advantage

• In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are about twenty percent. It's a different figure, but it's almost an opposite ratio. For the words are only a little bit of embroidery, a little bit of lacework.

  

  Nicholas Ray
  • Different
  • Figures
  • Percent

• I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Never
  • Cigarette
  • Nine

• Someone is putting brandy in your bonbons, Grand Marnier in your breakfast jam, Kahlua in your ice cream, Scotch in your mustard and Wild Turkey in your cake.

  

  Marian Burros
  • Breakfast
  • Cake
  • Scotch

• From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Destiny
  • Share
  • Accept

• I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.

  

  Ava Gardner
  • Cigarette
  • Growing Old
  • Scotch