Elizabeth Hardwick Quotes

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PowerMomentYouPlaceNothingSeem

I would go for the biggest guy on the team, dump the puck in. I would chase after it because I was very fast. If I wanted to get a big hit, I would have to leap into the guy. The guy would be maybe a 6-3 defenseman, 220, I would leap into this guy and plow him over. He would just fall to the ground. That was my thing.

Max Aaron

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Truly successful people don't rise to the top by acting tough; they become better by growing stronger.

Amy Morin

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I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

Stephen Hawking

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In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

Stanley Crouch

SayingLearnAmericaEnoughOut

I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.

Stephanie Herseth

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The tech-driven economy leads to a two-tier job market where workers are either critical or 'commodity.' This divisive 'winner-take-all' mentality hurts most Americans and worsens economic inequality.

Tom Steyer

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The challenges I face in the studio pale in comparison to when I'm out in nature.

Michael Muller

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I think great songs appeal to people at any age. Kids love the Beatles, too. Kids love Tom T. Hall. Of course, Tom T. wrote some things that were specifically for kids. But I think kids recognize quality more than they get credit for sometimes.

Jason Isbell

LoveAgeGreatQualityPeopleThink

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

Dorothy Thompson

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'South Park' movie was R. There's a place that people are not occupying, thinking that animated has to be family always, and I don't think that's true.

Christopher Miller

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If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal studio recording because I believe that something being officially released on a studio record gives it a certain authority that it doesn't quite have if it comes out on a live album or is just a part of your show, you know.

Bruce Springsteen

LiveBestSongBelieveFeelYou

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.

Thomas Mann

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