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

• 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

• It's hard, or you wouldn't like it. A lot of coaches really don't like what they're doing.

  

  Steve Largent
  • Like
  • Doing
  • Coaches

• No man loves life like him that's growing old.

  

  Sophocles
  • Man
  • Loves
  • Growing Old

• I used to smoke cigarettes, smoke dope, do smack, every f - - thing. First, I couldn't function without it. Then I couldn't do anything with or without it. Then I thought, "This is the end of the line for my fun days."

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Fun
  • Dope
  • Cigarette

• As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • Great
  • America
  • War

• 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