Quotes About Being Cold And Distant

#1. Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.

Amy Chua

#2. You have two eyes, and two ears, but only one mouth. This is so because you are supposed to look and listen more than you talk.

Lucca Kaldahl

#3. A writer has to have some kind of compulsive drive to do his work. If you don't have it, you'd better find another kind of work, because it's the only compulsion that will drive you through the psychological nightmares of writing.

John McPhee

#4. You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

Ferran Adria

#5. I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.

Charlotte Rampling

#6. Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having.

D.H. Lawrence

#7. Well, I've already got ten thousand set aside. That's a good start. If you think about it when we get home, give me your Social and next time I drop by the bank, I'll open an account in your name, okay?

Donna Tartt

#8. Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.

Kevin James Breaux

#9. Being a star is depressing.
It twinkles but is distant and cold.

I'd rather be the moon,
Shine in your glory and go around you forever!

Avinash Matta

#10. For it is one thing to declare one's love for someone and quite another to accept that loving that person requires sacrificing one's dreams.

Nicholas Sparks

#11. I personally love shows that change the lives of people that go through the show. And even if you don't like to cook, I think you should watch just for the story of these people who are going through different stages of their lives through the show. The way they evolve and grow is amazing.

Ana Claudia Talancon

#12. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Norman Cousins

#13. I've been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I'm nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is true. But is it too much to ask to want to protect your private life, your inner feelings?

Grace Kelly

#14. What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

Saint Augustine