Addison Mizner Quotes

The wages of gin is breath.

Addison Mizner

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• To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • American
  • Speak
  • Honest

• Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Try
  • Classic
  • Museums

• I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mom
  • Kitchen
  • Kid

• The Indonesian nationalists, mainly Javanese, who threw the Dutch out - in 1949, after a four-year struggle - were keen to preserve their inheritance and emulated the coercion, deceit, and bribery of the colonial rulers.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Struggle
  • Deceit
  • Preserve

• In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Long
  • Tiger
  • Stick

• I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Myself

• The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Never
  • Rich

• No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at peace.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Society
  • Peace
  • Justice

• I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Together
  • Window
  • Dirt

• To me, a staircase looks like a series of dark and light horizontal stripes, which is exactly how you'd draw a staircase. So I know how the image is going to look on the page.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Page

• How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be 'American' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, & having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

  

  Edith Wharton
  • American
  • Discipline

• My greetings to you, my Germany.

  

  Alfred Jodl

• I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Character

• When you're following people after their eviction, they often start out kind of optimistic, in a way - it's a really tough time, but it's also like a new start. Who knows where they might end up?

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• It's all about trying to find those projects where you get to enjoy yourself, because I think that's when you create as well: when you're genuinely excited about something. Then you're not just doing it because it's your job.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Trying
  • Job

• Because my writing time has always been very limited, I try to be very choosy about which stories I work on. There are many ideas that would make interesting stories - too many - so it's important to be ruthless and say no to most of them.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• You can't develop a great car and sell it as an independent. You can develop a great car and make a deal with Mercedes.

  

  Eric Fellner
  • Great
  • Car
  • Independent

• Three poets, in three distant ages born,Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.The first in loftiness of thought surpassed;The next, in majesty; in both the last.The force of Nature could no further go.To make a third, she joined the former two.

  

  John Dryden
  • She
  • Nature

• I've learned to never take anything for granted and that people are all works in progress. Some people are just actively working on progressing, and some aren't.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • People
  • Progress

• If you're injured, it changes the way you move. If you're injured, it changes the way you talk.

  

  Darrell Hammond

• If you win as a unit, everybody gets credit for it.

  

  Tyronn Lue

• Critical words to a child are as painful and damaging as being physically hit. They are verbal slaps in the face. Usually, critical words are accompanied by threats, name-calling, and yelling. This verbal abuse can be especially damaging. Insulting names echo in a child's mind over and over again until he comes to believe he is indeed stupid, selfish, lazy, or ugly and that in fact, that is all he is.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Believe
  • Damaging
  • Child's Mind

• The wages of gin is breath.

  

  Addison Mizner