Marianne Faithfull Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
-
My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
-
Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
-
I want to be judged on my own merits.
-
Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
-
The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
-
I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
-
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
-
I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
-
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
-
There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
-
I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
-
I was born in India - but never really lived there.
-
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
-
I remember taking my makeup off at a Saint Laurent shoot, and I was dragging it across my eye. The makeup artist was like, 'Don't do that to your skin! Don't pull it like that!' And I'm like, 'Really?'
-
By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
-
I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
-
I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
-
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
-
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
-
When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less. Each thing, from the single grain of Dust to the strongest eldil, is the end and the final cause of all creation and the mirror in which the beam of His brightness comes to rest and so returns to Him. Blessed be He!
-
I smoke too much whether it's going well or badly. After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.
-
Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
-
France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.
