Nick Harkaway Quotes

Peace is not a state - it is a choice, and you have to remake it every day. It's possible to get a sort of stability, a habit of peace, but it's like an egg balanced, spinning, on its point: lose your momentum, and your equilibrium is gone, too.

Nick Harkaway

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DayPeaceHabitYouLoseChoice

Republicans are the only one who can carry the banner of what I think millions of Americans are saying.

Jim DeMint

EducationPowerHealthSupportCare

I could have sexual chemistry with vinegar.

Jessica Alba

ChemistryVinegarSexualCould

I came into advertising in 1961. I had been turned down for jobs on the Ford account in the late Fifties as 'not their type.' If it hadn't been for Bill Bernbach, I would now be sitting in some luncheonette, continuing my life as a messenger.

Jerry Della Femina

LifeAdvertisingMy LifeLateDown

I'm a takeout kind of girl. Whole Foods prepares most of my meals.

Jenna Ushkowitz

GirlKindMealsWholeWhole Foods

The class barricades have been stormed by the forces of a broad culture, which is made up of clusters of individuals who have decided for themselves what they will be in society.

Melvyn Bragg

CultureSocietyWillClassUpBeen

Mrs. Obama has a hug - a sincere and friendly embrace - that has become familiar to countless supporters from coast to coast. And when she talks to you, she focuses all her calm attention on your face.

Andre Leon Talley

CalmFaceAttentionYouHugBecome

The thing I really love about my fans is the vulnerability and openness, the crying and the hugs. They are so kind.

Mary Lambert

LoveKindVulnerabilityFansCrying

Weightlessness was unbelievable. It's physical euphoria: Nothing about you has any weight. You don't realize that you are weighed down all the time by yourself, and your organs, and your head. Your arms weigh down your shoulders. In space simulation, you get to fly like Superman! You're hanging in the air! It's the coolest thing.

Mary Roach

TimeYourselfSpaceFlyYouDown

Let's talk about the Gas Company because this is my favorite job.

Minoru Yamasaki

JobTalkCompanyBecauseGasAbout

I knew I wasn't the sort of person who could do a full-time job and write in the evening and at weekends.

Lisa Jewell

JobEveningPersonWriteWeekends

I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament about the past are everyday things that you would use were made more beautifully.

Dita Von Teese

BeautifulPastThinkSomeoneYou

These days, it's perfectly normal to move between the theatre and television.

Diana Rigg

TheatreTelevisionDaysNormalMove

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