Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
Edith Piaf
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For me, singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
EDITH PIAF I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.
LAURA BRANIGAN I love Aretha Franklin, Edith Piaf, Blondie.
ESPERANZA SPALDING I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way ...
DORIS ROBERTS 'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' ...
JOHN GRANT I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and ...
SINEAD O'CONNOR It was right after I did Piaf, 'La Vie en Rose'. I started to take singing lessons and findi...
MARION COTILLARD I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album.
MELISSA JOAN HART The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician ...
VINCE GILL You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no g...
JULIE ANDREWS I love singing. It makes me feel good. It's like a release, especially when I'm singing soul...
MICHAEL KIWANUKA I'm proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it's a sig...
CRISTIANO RONALDO Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just an...
JOHN LYDON When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's n...
LYKKE LI It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.
PETER O'TOOLE I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.
PATCH ADAMS I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it....
ADRIAN GRENIER I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.
HOAGY CARMICHAEL I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no id...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB Everyone thinks I'm singing falsetto, but that's my normal singing voice.
SLIM WHITMAN They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier...
BRUCE BOXLEITNER In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way ...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that n...
NEALE DONALD WALSCH See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.
JIMI HENDRIX I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX When I'm doing sports, I always think of how it's related to singing, and when I watch tenni...
JUAN DIEGO FLOREZ Before I won 'American Idol,' I'd never been in a professional studio at all. I'm ge...
CANDICE GLOVER I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.
PITBULL When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.
JOE DIMAGGIO On Staten Island, there's a ship graveyard. I'm using that a lot, even for 'Under the Do...
NIELS ARDEN OPLEV I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire...
ALICE WALKER I'm actually no longer a strict vegan. I don't hang out in the cheese section - I don't ...
JASON MRAZ I'm not against the virtual world; it's fascinating, but I don't like the way they try t...
LEOS CARAX I was in art school, and we had all these random classes. We'd listen to a lot of Bollywood. I...
KEHLANI People say my world is dark. No, there's a lot of lightness in my world. But I know very well th...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE There is no situation like the open road, and seeing things completely afresh. I'm used to trave...
JAMES SALTER When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd ha...
LULU I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave ...
ELLEN DEGENERES I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
ALBERT EINSTEIN It's that I'm 39. I feel hot and sexy, actually... I feel it inside myself. I don't feel...
KYRA SEDGWICK I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.
MICHELLE DOCKERY There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my indu...
KEVIN BACON I keep my eyes closed a lot when I'm singing because sometimes it's distracting to see peopl...
CONOR OBERST If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'...
DAKOTA FANNING I'm seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There's no black...
STEVEN WRIGHT I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too o...
TAMSIN GREIG Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it&...
LOU HOLTZ The world is ending, make no mistake. It's coming to an end. This can't go on for much longe...
FRANK DILLANE It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactl...
JONAH HILL No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
BILLIE HOLIDAY Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the n...
VICTORIA PENDLETON When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's...
MANIKA There's a bunch of places in the world I haven't been to, 'cause I can only be on a plan...
EDDIE MURPHY I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, bu...
LAINIE KAZAN The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm no...
TAYLOR HANSON I love Louisiana. There's no place on earth like Louisiana, and there's no city on earth lik...
DON LEMON And if you're singing to someone, or if they're singing along, and suddenly you're in ha...
JASON MRAZ I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer hi...
DAVID BOWIE I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a r...
J. COLE I've had to write in a different way because I'm not in a bad place and I'm not heartbro...
BOY GEORGE I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love si...
SAMANTHA BARKS I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice...
SAM SMITH I'm looking to no man walking this earth for approval of what I'm doing.
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
TAYE DIGGS I'm of the mindset that most people who have kids are, which is, 'Hey, I want another me. I ...
DAVID CROSS I love singing and performing. I'm always singing. Even if I'm at school or in the car, I...
CAITLIN HALE I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become ...
MADELEINE PEYROUX When I write, I'm not trying to be funny. It's the way I look at the world.
BILLY COLLINS I just think TV is becoming more and more interesting in a way. Films are more and more derivative, ...
JOE ABERCROMBIE For a very long time, I wasn't thought of as anyone with any credibility in the film world. Ever...
JESSICA BIEL The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a d...
LEWIS MUMFORD I do freestyle jumping. Been doing since I was eight years old and can't quit. I'm addicted....
VANILLA ICE I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.
ADAM LAMBERT I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it sho...
EDMUND WHITE If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there t...
GEORGE STRAIT It's a circus life, the movies. It's a lot of travelling, a lot of antisocial hours; there...
PAUL GREENGRASS There's times when I'm cleaning the kitchen, and while I'm doing that, I'm singing a...
COREY TAYLOR If I'm singing something I don't like, it literally feels like stepping on nails.
CAITLIN ROSE For me, it's about being comfortable... but I can feel comfortable in a thong leotard and on sta...
JILLIAN HERVEY I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite...
KEN FOLLETT Karma has to be done, to the last moment, there is no way of escaping the world once one is in it.
APORVA KALA Yes, yes, I'm very happy that I finally got through this match, beat No. 7 in the world. It'...
DANIELA HANTUCHOVA I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again...
ARTHUR FREED I'm an information junkie, and I don't mean that in snobby way. I'm not talking about wo...
DANIELLE SCHNEIDER Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no,' then I find anot...
NAOMI CAMPBELL I'm that person who says, 'No matter what the problem is, there's a solution.' That&...
MIRANDA KERR I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like ...
CORAZON AQUINO As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way ...
AARON RODGERS I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not tryi...
STEVEN WRIGHT Because I'm no longer a pop star 24 hours a day, I'm no longer bogged down by the stupid stu...
ROBBIE WILLIAMS I've been playing sports since I was five. For me, there's no happier moment than when I'...
DANIEL HUMM I take my dog to the vet a lot because he's old and sick, and I always step on the scale when I&...
IKE BARINHOLTZ I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's goi...
MAIRA KALMAN I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason...
SAMANTHA BOND I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into...
CYNDI LAUPER I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh some...
JASON MRAZ I'm not sexist in any way - sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in ...
BETTY WILLIAMS There's two identity markers I'm sure of, and one is, I'm Jewish. And the other is, I...
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ÉDITH PIAF True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
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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 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 I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurre...
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 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 ...
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EDITH PEARLMAN I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you'...
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EDITH PEARLMAN The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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 Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunate...
EDITH WIDDER Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analo...
EDITH STEIN 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 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 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.
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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?
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EDITH SITWELL In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluoresce...
EDITH WIDDER Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'M...
EDITH HEAD I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think migh...
EDITH WIDDER 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 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 I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. - Las...
EDITH CAVELL I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and
abundance. Then, whenever ...
EDITH ARMSTRONG