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Rebecca West Quotes

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: irish
Birth: December 21, 1892 - March 15, 1983

Topics

Great Art Intelligence Why Reason

We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.

Day Chance Rest America Born Way

You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?

Sky Words Moon You Choice Say

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.

Time Growing Up Loved Cinema Growing

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

Ritchie Blackmore

Good Someone You Standards Own Your

Our friendship was based on my payouts. That wasn't a friendship when - as, for example, it's me, my friends, we are friends for many years, and it doesn't matter for me what the position is, where they work; we simply are friends. And with Mr. Berezovsky, our friendship was based on my payoffs.

Roman Abramovich

Work Friendship Me Friends Matter

What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.

Intelligence Language Down Write Us

I was born in June, so I like summer, and my favourite part of a sunny day is when the sun sets.

Day Sun Born Summer Sunny June

It's not about being thin, it's about being healthy. And when you are a child you like to eat all these unhealthy things like chocolate and sweets. Oh my God. I love strawberries dipped in chocolate and Lion bars and Toffee Crisps - and as you grow up, you have to learn that those things are only good in moderation or you will become very fat.

Dionne Bromfield

Love Good God Lion Child Fat

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

Douglas Coupland

Book Giving Someone You Back Never

Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.

Divorce Gone Fact Unit Maybe

All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am.

I Am Thought Doing Long I Can Going

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

Alice Foote MacDougall

Success She Success Is Her May Come

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