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Max Lerner Quotes

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

Max Lerner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 20, 1902 - June 5, 1992

Topics

Best Learn You Late Lying Prove

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

Jo Brand

Women Power Men Go Prove Try

The Chinese, our allies, have been allies with North Korea.

John Dickerson

Allies Been North Korea Chinese Our

I'm not interested in hiding from the fact that my parents are actors. I'm proud of them! It's very ordinary to pursue a career that your parents do, but when it's in the public eye, it becomes a complicated thing.

Maya Hawke

Parents Eye Proud Career Complicated

I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten...' You can't say anything about me. You can't put me down in any way shape or form - I'm rotten to the core... you know, what's left for you? Pleasantries? I suppose the worst insult you could sling my way is 'Oh, he's really nice, him.'

John Lydon

Me You Down Know Nice Say

I remember tearing up the first time I read Nabokov's description, in 'Speak, Memory,' of his father being tossed on a blanket by cheering muzhiks, with its astonishingly subtle foreshadowing of grief and mourning.

Michael Chabon

Father Time Grief Memory Speak Up

Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.

Amor Towles

Character Me Writing Early Down

I'm not just selling out Yankee Stadium; I'm selling out stadiums in Mexico, in Argentina - with my bachata. I try to stay true to what I do.

Romeo Santos

Selling Stay True True Try Mexico

I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.

Louis L'Amour

Myself Think Shadows Village Guy

I write alternative, folkie pop. It's very acoustic.

Chord Overstreet

Write Pop Acoustic Alternative Very

The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own time.

Anthony Kennedy

Nature Time Injustice Always See

There are some days I feel fat. I'm not convinced there's going to be a moment where every woman in the world wakes up and feels like a million dollars. So, what I want to do is give women the tools that will help when those moments come up. Sometimes it can be as easy as telling yourself that you are beautiful.

Ashley Graham

Women Beautiful Moment Woman World

Usually a fiber, after being dipped in a liquid, shows a string of droplets, and thus, for some time, people thought that most common fibers were non-wettable.

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

Time People Thought Being Common