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Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes

Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: british
Birth: February 26, 1897 - April 7, 1945

Topics

Happiness Light Achievement Feel

Every man, woman and child consumes, on average, 43 teaspoons of sugar a day. In 13 days, that adds up to a five-pound bag of sugar.

John Mackey

Day Woman Man Child Bag Sugar

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.

Robert Morgan

Life Myself Writing Curiosity You

As a young boy, I did a lot of foolish things. I made a lot of mistakes. And you live and learn.

Tony Bennett

Live Mistakes Learn You Young Boy

Lana Turner taught me how to kiss on the set of the movie 'Diane' in the early Fifties.

Roger Moore

Kiss Me Early Fifties Set Movie

History is a way of interpreting, rather than, say, knowing, the past. It is usually a set of disputes between those who have access to the same sources. It depends on ideology as much as voting in an election does.

Colm Toibin

History Past Voting Election Say

I would hate it if my four boys were bullied as I was.

Brigitte Nielsen

Hate Would Four Bullied Were

Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Graham Greene was formative.

Phil Klay

School High School High Exposure

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Peter Marshall

Succeed Better Will Fail Than Cause

We do try to be entertainers, but we're musicians first, and we try to showcase the music.

Rick Nielsen

Music Musicians Try First Showcase

I can say that hands down from being in this business 32 years; we're going to be much better than we were last year just because there's eight new players that now have experience and Palacios will be healthy.

Rick Pitino

Business Experience Better Year Down

I started doing amateur theatre and played Rosa Parks at the age of 12 or 13. At 16, I decided it was what I wanted to do.

Letitia Wright

Age Theatre Doing Started Parks

The allegedly 'classy' magazines often seem to be in an endless, undeclared competition to see who can climb furthest up the fundament of Gwyneth Paltrow or Jennifer Lopez.

Julie Burchill

Competition Climb Classy See Up Who