Cyril Connolly Quotes

Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

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• People say, 'You should let your hair out; you shouldn't be oppressed - you're not in Malaysia anymore. You should show your curves and be proud of it.' But I am proud - it's my choice to cover up my body. I'm not oppressed - I'm free.

  

  Yuna
  • Free
  • Proud
  • Choice

• It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Love
  • Evil

• We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Know
  • Deep
  • Scars

• Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Time
  • Science
  • Practice

• I came to acting in a very circuitous way.

  

  Victoria Pratt
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  • Acting
  • Very

• The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Man
  • Day
  • Voice

• My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.

  

  Jack Black
  • Children
  • Love
  • Death

• Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Happiness
  • Feel
  • Living

• I've been doing African dance all my life.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Life
  • Dance
  • My Life

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• Life is like an analogy.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Life
  • Like
  • Analogy

• In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Moral
  • Thought

• When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Congress
  • Property

• In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Way
  • Strange
  • Comfortable

• It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

  

  A. E. Waite
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  • Myself
  • Thought

• Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Should
  • Entertainment
  • Union

• The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Family
  • Christian
  • Sin

• When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,' and not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Day
  • Sky
  • Blue

• I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Technology

• I have a six-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter, so I write when they are at school and pre-school, or when I have a babysitter.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • School
  • Son
  • Daughter

• We have the deepest and most liquid capital markets in the world.

  

  John W. Snow
  • World

• Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.

  

  Hannibal Buress
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  • Time
  • Home

• Mmmmmmmm. Anderson. He's dreamy. Just dreamy. I've been a fan of his since season 1 of 'The Mole.' I just thought he was so cool when he talked in this cool, low, secret-agent voice.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Cool

• Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

  

  Cyril Connolly
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