Agnes Varda Quotes

I'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.

Agnes Varda

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• If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Music
  • Road
  • Driving

• Yoga is a life-saver.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Life
  • Yoga

• We've never been anti-Semitic.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Never
  • Been
  • Anti-Semitic

• I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • People
  • Believe
  • Help

• I don't think I can name any names or anything, but this is what I've wanted to do for a long time: to have Flume as my creative outlet and to work on the biggest songs in the world, like pop, and come up with the idea and send it off.

  

  Flume
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Die
  • Taken

• Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Great
  • School
  • Change

• In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • American
  • Girl
  • City

• I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • People
  • Me
  • College

• I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Three
  • Train
  • Nervous

• I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Team
  • Never
  • Left

• If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Time
  • You
  • Realize

• Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Tired

• The problem with some stars is that they lose perspective about correct adult behavior. People laugh at everything they say and do. Nobody says, 'Chill out, man. That's out of line.'

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • People
  • Man
  • Perspective

• Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Know
  • Heartbeat
  • Clumsy

• I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Warrior
  • Revolutionary

• I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'

  

  Action Bronson
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• Let this always be plain to thee, that this piece of land is like any other; and that all things here are the same with all things on the top of a mountain, or on the sea-shore, or wherever thou chooses to be. For thou wilt find just what Plato says, Dwelling within the walls of the city as in a shepherd's fold on a mountain.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • City
  • Sea
  • Mountain

• When I was seven and we lived in New York, I ran away. I took my dog and started out across the Brooklyn Bridge... I didn't get very far... It's rather difficult to run away in your mother's high heels.

  

  Lee Radziwill
  • Mother
  • High
  • Dog

• If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

  

  Chuck Yeager

• He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind-but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Mind
  • Gun

• A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!

  

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Think

• I'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Mind
  • Memories
  • Nostalgic