Beads quotes

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.
-- Henrik Ibsen

#Hero #Finance #Beads
I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin.
-- Jacki Weaver

#Beads
When I was a kid, I was trendier. I'd wear anything. I was in love beads and platforms.
-- Michael Kors

#Kids #Beads #Platforms
Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace.
-- Terry Eagleton

#Reading #Necklaces #Beads
Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered,
-- Zac Posen

#Lace #Beads
I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
-- Zora Neale Hurston

#Race #Feminine #Beads

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.
You learn to accept defeat graciously in golf. Unlike other sports, the game itself is a constant opponent. It never stops. A golfer is fortunate to win a few times. We spend our whole lives trying to conquer something, and we lose a lot more than we win.
I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.
We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
United States: the country where liberty is a statue.
I will not rule out anything. I don't speculate on my own future. I'll wait and see what happens.
If NATO troops walk in Crimea, they will immediately deploy their forces there. Such a move would be geopolitically sensitive for us because, in this case, Russia would be practically ousted from the Black Sea area. We'd be left with just a small coastline of 450 or 600km, and that's it!
When are we left-wingers going to learn that we are losing the cultural and political battle with conservatives because we are fractured into narcissistic special-interest groups? Why should an antiwar protestor be so concerned about her dietary identity? The political opinions of vegetarians and meat-eaters are, after all, equally important. And what does it tell us about vegetarians that it would never occur to meat-eaters to carry a sign that reads "Pacifist Pork Chop Lover for Peace" or "Backyard Rib Barbecuer for International Nuclear Disarmament"?
A psychologically engrossing novel about the homes we make-in our houses, in our neighborhoods, and in the hearts of our loved ones. Laken takes on that great unspoken American subject-class-and does so with frankness, acuity and surpassing feeling. DREAM HOUSE is a memorable debut novel from a fully mature talent.
To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.