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

• 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

• I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you're supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Trust
  • End

• Things have a terrible permanence when people die.

  

  Joyce Kilmer
  • Die
  • Things
  • Permanence

• [I typically start my day with] coffee and a cigarette... Smoking is terrible, to smoke a cigarette as the first thing in the day is the worst thing you can do to yourself... I want to stop smoking, I have smoked almost a pack a day, you see, since I was 16. I told my parents immediately. They always wanted me to be honest with them... my father accepted my promise not to smoke more than two or three cigarettes a day. But unfortunately it didn't quite work out.

  

  Alexandra Maria Lara
  • Work
  • Father
  • Parents

• Some are addicted to cigarettes, some, God forbid, to drugs, and some become addicted to money. They say that the worst addiction is to power. I have never felt that. I have never been addicted to anything

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Drug
  • Worst
  • Addiction

• Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Great
  • Achievement
  • Lessons

• 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