Richard Papen Quotes

#1. This is the East Coast, boy. I know they're pretty laissez-faire about dress in your neck of the woods, but back here 52. they don't let you run around in your bathing suit all year long.
Blacks and blues, that's the ticket, blacks and blues ... (Bunny Corcoran to Richard Papen)

Donna Tartt

#2. Richard Papen: As it happened, I knew Gartrell. He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, gutteral verbs, and the world postmodernist.

Donna Tartt

#3. Investing in women, helping women to achieve their dreams, sending young girls to college. Trying to train young girls to be leaders. Sponsoring the Minerva Awards. All of these programs didn't exist before that help women day in and day out.

Maria Shriver

#4. I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

Elizabeth Taylor

#5. I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#6. Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

George William Curtis

#7. I'm like, over love. Crush, smush. I can't. I'm giving up on love at this point. I'm hoping for a crush. Actually, no. I don't want a crush. I want someone to crush on me.

Xosha Roquemore

#8. In my own humorless state I failed to see anything except what I construed as certain tragic similarities between Gatsby and myself.

Donna Tartt

#9. I'm still trying to understand the wearing off high heels at the airport.

Godfrey

#10. The successful recruit must be empathetic. This condition rules out the sadistic, the vengeful, and the enthusiastic. Therefore, many of the garden-variety killers who applied so far have had no chance of success, especially those who are already behind bars.

Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#11. "Have you heard any Stockhausen?" Beecham was asked. "No, but I believe I have stepped in some."

Thomas Beecham

#12. Look out for luck. You can't trus' luck.

John Steinbeck

#13. The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity.

Archibald Hill

#14. Just remain in the center; watching. And then forget that you are there.

Lao-Tzu