Elizabeth Hardwick Quotes

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 27, 1916 - December 2, 2007

Topics

PowerCityLanguageGenerationHand

I grew up a misfit. I never fit in.

Joe Manganiello

NeverUpFitGrew

The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.

Jo Brand

HeartManWayThroughHisPocket

People can have so many ill-conceived ideas about me based on the parts that I play. I've had guys, when I've been single, come out of the woodwork to date me and I've found out very quickly that they were expecting some kind of whirlwind, some dramatic crazy person - and that's just not me.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

PeopleMeIdeasCrazyPersonPlay

Shonda Rhimes, especially, saw something in me that no one had and then wrote to my strengths for 'Grey's Anatomy.' That's the job I think really opened up a whole new world for me.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

JobMeWorldThinkNewGrey

You have to have your wits about you and think quickly on your feet.

Michael East

FeetThinkYouYourWitsAbout

I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame.

Steve Carell

CharacterMyselfGameYouLookSide

I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.

Shirley Manson

ChangeI AmWeatherMoodMessSee

The dollar went up some eighty percent in real terms as I recall now or something like that - from '80 to '85.

Robert C. Solomon

NowRealDollarUpRecallSomething

Sometimes when a video goes viral, it gets a ton of views very quickly: they'll get a couple of million within a few hours. All of my baking videos, even the more higher viewed ones, are like a slow burn. Right away they usually get 200,000 to 400,000 views, and then as they sit there for a few months, then they really explode.

Rosanna Pansino

SlowBakingBurnSometimesRight

I met Hillary Clinton when I was a young lady working as an intern, and I can tell you she's been a progressive fighter all her life. And Bernie Sanders, I got to know him during campaigns on Capitol Hill, campaigns across this country. These are two wonderful, fighting souls.

Donna Brazile

LifeFightingLadyYouI CanYoung

The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles. Probe the smaller particles, you'll find something else, a tiny vibrating filament of energy, a little tiny vibrating string.

Brian Greene

EnergyYouFindMatterMoreFirst

Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit.

Brian May

BlackAdmitRightExpertThingsGot

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