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Related I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. T... SALLY FIELD In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this compa... KAREN KAIN I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that... NAT WOLFF I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent. BARBARA STEELE I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have ... BETTY WHITE I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career. DABNEY COLEMAN If I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't have done it. If I had a million bucks in the bank, I ... CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN I would've loved to have children and I'm really good with kids, but I just didn't want ... FRAZER HINES If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligenc... NICOLAS CAGE I have never wanted to hide my freckles. I just didn't like the way I looked without them; it di... CASSADEE POPE I've never been in any pain, ever, like that in my whole life. Now it's set me so far back, ... DIANA NYAD Raising myself and caring for my brothers and sisters allowed me the benefit of a lot of information... SANDRA LEE My whole life, I feel so blessed. I met my wife: I can't get over that I got so lucky. I have tw... MANDY PATINKIN If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resum... SAMMY HAGAR I've never been interested enough to have a career trajectory. I've never had any ambition o... JOANNA LUMLEY Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you... RICK RUBIN I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever th... TAYLOR HAWKINS I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave ... KATE GRENVILLE But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I w... EUGENE LEVY I won't say I didn't like it at the time, the sex, that is, because I wouldn't have let ... CHRISTINE KEELER I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just did... TOM SMOTHERS I wouldn't have become an engineer, I wouldn't have done what I did, had a hand not been hel... MICHAEL LEE-CHIN Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless. and Just because you don't... ANTHONY T. HINCKS I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I did... GABRIELLE APLIN I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It'... GARETH GATES I never felt I had anything to hide. I never felt being gay was anything to be ashamed of, so I neve... MARTINA NAVRATILOVA I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these thing... BAHMAN GHOBADI I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I&... TOM CRUISE I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to pi... BARBARA KRUGER Why is it that we want what we don't have, yet we can't see what we do have? ANTHONY T. HINCKS I always had ambitions to work in the U.K. I just never thought it was gonna happen so soon. So I th... BEN SCHNETZER I have never been one of those actors who say, 'Oh, my character wouldn't do this,' or &... D. B. SWEENEY I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you... ELMORE LEONARD I don't believe I've ever played a hip dude. I don't think I would have the wherewithal ... EUGENE LEVY I haven't watched anything I've been in since I've done it. I have never put in a movie ... HELEN HUNT I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. ... DANIEL BOULUD I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I... RALPH LAUREN And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all... EDDIE VAN HALEN When I was younger I didn't have much financially, like we couldn't afford a lot of stuff an... NICKI MINAJ Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think t... GEOFFREY RUSH And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish so... POPPY Z. BRITE In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing every... LAURE MANAUDOU Growing up, I've had plenty of obstacles, but to be honest, I didn't always have doubters. I... ROMAN REIGNS I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child. IOAN GRUFFUDD I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever t... WALE I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream f... KARRIE WEBB I wouldn't want to go back over my life. I've done it all. I wouldn't have wanted to mis... ART DONOVAN Since I got to this country when I was 12, I've been obsessed with this idea of whiteness and bl... JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS I didn't have any sophistication. I didn't really have any great taste or anything like that... JIMMY IOVINE What's amazing with 'The X Factor' is that it gives people a chance who wouldn't nor... CYNTHIA ERIVO There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work o... DARREN ARONOFSKY There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to th... TAMARA MELLON My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold med... BETTY CUTHBERT If it wasn't for life, I wouldn't have you. ANTHONY T. HINCKS Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outsi... J. K. SIMMONS I've got a hectic schedule, but I wouldn't have my life any other way. DOMINIC MONAGHAN I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I th... RAIN Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, i... KARL MALONE I always felt like I was kind of an outsider because I didn't have the right things. I didn'... LEAH REMINI I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because ... TOM JONES I couldn't have accomplished the things in my career if I didn't practice, and the worst par... ALLEN IVERSON Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, ... LINDSEY VONN I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that. COLIN HAY All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't mad... TRACEY EMIN I've been on the side where you have nothing, and now I'm on the side where anything I want ... DWIGHT HOWARD I wished that I could have been down there because Paul actually wanted me to do the tour with him, ... ERIC CARR I've always been a massive fan of Batman. He didn't have any powers, so it meant that anyone... ERIN RICHARDS There's been times when I've had heartbreaking moments and I'm like, 'I can't be... SHAILENE WOODLEY I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was ... ELIZABETH PENA I have no regrets on anything. People ask me all the time, 'Do I have any regrets?' I don... ALLEN IVERSON I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've ... DUNCAN SHEIK I never analyzed whether I had a style or whether I didn't. I wouldn't be able to describe m... MARION COTILLARD I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The... JOHN SWEENEY I've been trying to think of things to tell my kids, something that I could pass down, and it... KRIS KRISTOFFERSON I've been lucky. I don't for a minute take for granted the good fortune I have had. You don&... TONY CURRAN I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. ... DEE DEE RAMONE It's kind of weird. You can have hits, but it's hard to sustain a career. I went through tha... GARY WRIGHT When I was leaving NBC News to go to CNN, people would say, 'What?! Why would you possibly leave... SOLEDAD O'BRIEN I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not... NATHAN FILLION I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life grow... LEE DANIELS I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some exte... SPIRO T. AGNEW I didn't take theater or anything. We didn't have a very good theater program. It was in wes... OLESYA RULIN I will never be a career actor, I don't think. I don't feel that I have the skill set to jum... LARRY MULLEN, JR. My parents were supportive. I didn't have good grades, but they could tell I wasn't lazy. BILL HADER Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life ... STEVE JOBS I don't have Facebook; I don't have Twitter. I don't have anything because, believe it o... WISSAM AL MANA And I don't believe that I have to stay on one side of the fence or the other. I don't belie... WHOOPI GOLDBERG It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I coul... WILL SMITH A lot of people have told me, 'You're not this and so can't play that,' and I can... ANNE HATHAWAY I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movi... ADAM MCKAY I don't have a career, I have a life. I don't have an exterior judgment on what would be goo... TILDA SWINTON When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew... LARENZ TATE My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn... SAM DONALDSON I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn&... TAYLOR SWIFT I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn't mind it i... CRISTIANO RONALDO If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work... YOGI BERRA I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation. DON DELILLO I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him... BARBARA LYNN I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school ... BILLIE WHITELAW When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of ... MAHESH BABU
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I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age. EDITH WIDDER Squid don't eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a ... EDITH WIDDER One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably... EDITH WIDDER We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecti... EDITH WIDDER We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made ... EDITH WIDDER In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapago... EDITH WIDDER It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent ... EDITH WIDDER I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organ... EDITH WIDDER The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator. EDITH WIDDER If we are to be good stewards of the ocean, we need to understand what lives there and how the anima... EDITH WIDDER Giant squid aren't rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sp... EDITH WIDDER For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bio... EDITH WIDDER I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we&... EDITH WIDDER It is clear that if we are going to understand ocean ecosystems, we need to understand the part that... EDITH WIDDER Finding animals that make light in the ocean is easy. Just drag a net through the water anywhere in ... EDITH WIDDER We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there... EDITH WIDDER There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tel... EDITH WIDDER During my first open ocean dive, I went down to 800 feet and turned out the lights. I knew I would s... EDITH WIDDER Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw... EDITH WIDDER Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunate... EDITH WIDDER Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. EDITH WIDDER Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's al... EDITH WIDDER I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biolog... EDITH WIDDER In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluoresce... EDITH WIDDER I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think migh... EDITH WIDDER Squid experts have been debating for some time about whether the giant squid is a passive predator t... EDITH WIDDER I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a met... EDITH WIDDER The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. ... EDITH WIDDER If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,... EDITH WIDDER The time of declining working hours in the public sector in Germany is over. The train is going in t... GERHARD WIDDER The result is that the people in our cities will have to continue to endure the strike. GERHARD WIDDER True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. EDITH WHARTON As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the fac... EDITH PIAF What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with th... EDITH HAMILTON He was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great... EDITH HAMILTON There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. EDITH WHARTON I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time... EDITH WHARTON He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime. EDITH WHARTON The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. EDITH WHARTON In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears. EDITH WHARTON To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it? EDITH WHARTON When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it ... EDITH WHARTON I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it in... EDITH WHARTON There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rise... EDITH WHARTON Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to br... EDITH WHARTON Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. EDITH WHARTON The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. EDITH WHARTON Silence may be as variously shaded as speech. EDITH WHARTON If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. EDITH WHARTON The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it th... EDITH STEIN All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself... EDITH STEIN A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community un... EDITH STEIN During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impert... EDITH STEIN The community that stands behind a culture as a comprehensively productive personality must be so ex... EDITH STEIN Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mot... EDITH STEIN Whoever resorts regularly to the lessons of Holy Scripture as an apt pupil will take the Savior into... EDITH STEIN As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people... EDITH STEIN Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past s... EDITH STEIN The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation ... EDITH STEIN One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And t... EDITH STEIN Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology... EDITH STEIN Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for t... EDITH STEIN On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every co... EDITH STEIN Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls' ... EDITH STEIN Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is t... EDITH STEIN The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every discipli... EDITH STEIN The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are. EDITH STEIN In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it ... EDITH STEIN The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elev... EDITH STEIN If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him. EDITH STEIN My longing for truth was a single prayer. EDITH STEIN This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is ... EDITH STEIN Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever... EDITH SITWELL The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous... EDITH SITWELL The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. EDITH SITWELL I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am... EDITH SITWELL I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. EDITH SITWELL I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. EDITH SITWELL Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred a... EDITH SITWELL A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. EDITH SITWELL People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looki... EDITH SCHAEFFER The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from. EDITH ROGERS I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinki... EDITH ROGERS But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should conf... EDITH ROGERS The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its min... EDITH PEARLMAN I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition b... EDITH PEARLMAN I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be... EDITH PEARLMAN I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity ... EDITH PEARLMAN There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifyin... EDITH PEARLMAN I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow. EDITH PEARLMAN Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobilit... EDITH PEARLMAN In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as ... EDITH PEARLMAN The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and pr... EDITH PEARLMAN I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devo... EDITH PEARLMAN I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you'... EDITH PEARLMAN I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, m... EDITH PEARLMAN The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future. EDITH PEARLMAN I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it w... EDITH PEARLMAN I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie. EDITH HEAD I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm be... EDITH HEAD I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie. EDITH HEAD With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women star... EDITH HEAD Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright col... EDITH HEAD Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap i... EDITH HEAD As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothi... EDITH HEAD We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressin... EDITH HEAD If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. J... EDITH HEAD You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear ... EDITH HEAD A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. EDITH HEAD Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your ... EDITH HEAD There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter. EDITH HEAD Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear. EDITH HEAD Some people need sequins, others don't. EDITH HEAD I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is m... EDITH HEAD My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes. EDITH HEAD Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, beca... EDITH HEAD You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it. EDITH HEAD What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of chan... EDITH HEAD The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who wil... EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated. EDITH HAMILTON Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without a... EDITH HAMILTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day ... EDITH HAMILTON The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. EDITH HAMILTON When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos. EDITH HAMILTON What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give. EDITH EVANS A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down he... EDITH EVANS I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations. EDITH EVANS I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You ... EDITH EVANS I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. EDITH CAVELL There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and belo... EDITH WHARTON Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. EDITH SUMMERSKILL I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the ame... EDITH WHARTON Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. EDITH WHARTON I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel ... EDITH SITWELL Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the cho... EDITH WHARTON Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a... EDITH SITWELL The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! EDITH WHARTON The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ... EDITH HAMILTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to... EDITH WHARTON An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope... EDITH WHARTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show... EDITH HAMILTON It makes sense that there is no sense without God. EDITH SCHAEFFER A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. EDITH WHARTON When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it does... EDITH WHARTON Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet... EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free... EDITH HAMILTON There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate a... EDITH HAMILTON None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio... EDITH HAMILTON I am thankful to have had these ten weeks of quiet to get ready. Now I have had them and have been k... EDITH CAVELL I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever ... EDITH ARMSTRONG There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who refle... EDITH WHARTON My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a... EDITH WHARTON Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty,... EDITH HAMILTON Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. EDITH HAMILTON It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying
yourself when you aren't. EDITH NESBIT Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. EDITH HAMILTON The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. EDITH WHARTON I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and c... EDITH WHARTON After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics ove... EDITH WHARTON My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. EDITH SITWELL The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. EDITH SITWELL Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heret... EDITH WHARTON Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing wh... EDITH WHARTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinctio... EDITH WHARTON Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with t... EDITH WHARTON In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual... EDITH WHARTON I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance. EDITH SITWELL I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. EDITH SITWELL Poetry is the deification of reality. EDITH SITWELL My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. EDITH SITWELL Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi... EDITH HAMILTON Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming t... EDITH HEAD Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analo... EDITH STEIN Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a... EDITH HEAD I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the auth... EDITH WHARTON I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears. EDITH PIAF My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. EDITH WHARTON The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. EDITH WHARTON Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct. EDITH HEAD Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young grateful... EDITH HEAD There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. EDITH WHARTON Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth. EDITH PIAF ...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all... EDITH WHARTON Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only cli... EDITH WHARTON When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man? EDITH EVANS The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have ... EDITH SITWELL Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'M... EDITH HEAD Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,'... EDITH PEARLMAN After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the cri... EDITH WHARTON Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,
then Athens ceased to be free... EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated. EDITH HAMILTON Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? EDITH WHARTON As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must ... EDITH STEIN All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard. EDITH PEARLMAN An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope... EDITH WHARTON All I've done all my life is disobey. EDITH PIAF There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. EDITH WHARTON It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual... EDITH WHARTON A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. EDITH HEAD