Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Elizabeth Bowen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: June 7, 1899 - February 22, 1973

Topics

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You play your character and it isn't right to step out of it. You have to stay in that character.

Robert Goulet

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In 1970, I was turning 29 years old, just 4 years out of art school. I had created a black and white drawing style mascot portrait called 'Johnny.' I made a poster for it and sent it around the world to corporate art departments.

John Van Hamersveld

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If you are heading for 60, people will flirt with you; if you are heading for 70, they won't.

Trinny Woodall

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I can't look hip, but I don't want to be hip.

Roger Ailes

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The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual decline. That is why we must repent and come to Christ daily on submissive knees so that we can prevent our bonfires of testimony from being snuffed out by sin.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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I love New York City because there's something to do 24/7, something that will make you see things in a whole different light. Like they say, it's the city that never sleeps.

Dianne Reeves

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You can't grow if you're going to say: 'The contributions of my predecessors are greater than anything I can ever achieve.' Each generation has to have a chance to find itself.

Christian Scott

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I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.

Peter Greenaway

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I think hygiene is so important.

Tom Brady

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The best stuff comes out when you're not making it for anything and you don't really know what you're making.

Noel Fielding

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I'm still learning every night, with every opportunity to write something, to sing something, to perform any work. Every opportunity to do these things brings me further along the journey, and the best part is, no matter how far along I go, I have so much more to learn.

Renee Elise Goldsberry

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