Erte Art Quotes

#1. In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.

Kate Christensen

#2. Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.
It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

Oscar Wilde

#3. You can be the happiest you can be in a relationship but can have an urge to be with someone else. I know a lot of people that it has happened to.

Ellie Goulding

#4. Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. The Lord in his wisdom gave money to very curious people, perhaps because they'd starve without. -Liza

John Steinbeck

#6. ...but fame didn't suit you, you compromised, a renegade rebel, you gave me your eyes.

Coco J. Ginger

#7. Love is light in the inner worlds; it is energy, a luminescent energy that is the basis of all creation. Love is the only thing in this world that is worthwhile because it is the only thing in this world that is eternal.

Frederick Lenz

#8. God alone can finish.

John Ruskin

#9. If we truly love other people, they will see it. That love is infectious.

Reese Roper

#10. I am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.

Charles De Gaulle

#11. My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.

Christopher Parker

#12. Whenever you put happiness before righteousness, you will be doomed to misery. That is the great message of the Bible from beginning to end. They alone are truly happy who are seeking to be righteous.

David Lloyd-Jones

#13. Perhaps most strikingly of all, it was clear in 1988 that those inside the process had congealed into a permanent political class, the defining characteristic of which was its readiness to abandon those not inside the process.

Joan Didion

#14. A coal miner from Chongjin whom I met in 2004 in China told me, People are not stupid. Everybody thinks our own government is to blame for our terrible situation. We all know we think that and we all know that everybody else thinks that. We don't need to talk about it.

Barbara Demick