Rebecca West Quotes

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

Rebecca West

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveTruthPeopleDownKnowWrite

I was in Girls' Generation because of luck, and fortunately, Girls' Generation received a lot of love. I would want to help my daughter walk a different career path.

Jessica Jung

LoveDaughterPathWalkLuckHelp

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning, it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe.

John Muir

GodGreatBestBeginningManGarden

Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.

Jeff Bridges

ChildFamousYouPersonBecauseGet

I don't write to a genre.

John Searles

WriteGenre

If you do things you like to do, then your life will be easy.

Roustam Tariko

LifeEasyYouWillThingsYour

The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate.

Mary Doria Russell

ReputationLegendBadOutNoseBig

Nobody had a credit card when I was a kid. No one had credit card debt. But these big companies and banks wanted to know how to get more money out of people - get them charging things.

Michael Moore

MoneyPeopleCreditNobodyKnowKid

Our sister Alma was the best hitter in the family. We used to soak corn cobs in water so they wouldn't fly so far when we hit 'em. Alma was the first to hit one far enough to break a window in the barn.

Lloyd Waner

FamilyWaterBestWindowSisterFly

What I don't find compelling is doing classical plays that everyone already knows - and people are following with the text in their hand because no one is listening.

Joseph Fiennes

PeopleListeningDoingFindHand

I'm an artist, and I need to work, like everybody. We need to be challenged and that we're getting up and doing something with our lives.

Dolores O'Riordan

WorkDoingArtistNeedUpSomething

I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.

Chen Shui-bian

CommunityPeopleBelieveViewSides

I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again.

Christopher Darden

MePerformanceThinkHurtHappen

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