Natalia Ginzburg Quotes

But the English do not know what surprise is. No one ever turns his head to look at anyone else in the street.

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• I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Time
  • School
  • Father

• He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Learn
  • Talent
  • Dedication

• I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Book
  • Soul
  • Night

• You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Play
  • Win

• Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Thoughts
  • Negative
  • Internal

• There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Me
  • Nobody
  • Double

• I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.

  

  Frances Bay
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Thought

• The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even think about it. And I've never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Music
  • Think
  • Morning

• I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

  

  Karen O
  • Really
  • Bass
  • Ace

• I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

  

  Washed Out
  • Think
  • Blessing
  • Curse

• And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Different
  • Racism
  • Discrimination

• I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Science
  • Ideas
  • Playing

• All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Wisdom
  • Does
  • Delhi

• The beautiful thing about the NFL season is to see a team come together after they get to know each other in the spring and summer. You then go through adversity together and see how you respond. The teams that can respond in a positive way are the teams that are going to be there in the end.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Together
  • Beautiful
  • Team

• Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Long
  • Women

• I don't think I've ever seen pie advertised. That's how you know it's good. They advertise ice cream and other desserts. They advertise the bejeezus out of yogurt, but I haven't seen one pie commercial.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Good
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

  

  Yann Martel
  • World
  • Art
  • Think

• When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Shame
  • Privacy
  • Ghetto

• I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• I get recognized by some people in my community, but not a lot. In fact, they would say, 'What do you do?' And I would say, 'Well, I did 'The Bernie Mac Show.'' And they would say, 'Oh, really? Well, do you know so-and-so?' And I'd say, 'Yeah, I hired them. I was the boss!' They don't believe it.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Believe
  • Community

• The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits - I wasn't. The system gives you bad grades and tells you you're stupid. You don't think, 'If this kid's not a good fit, it could be the system's fault.'

  

  Jose Ferreira
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Bad

• God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed.

  

  Miley Cyrus
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• But the English do not know what surprise is. No one ever turns his head to look at anyone else in the street.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • English
  • Surprise