Mines Quotes - Page 4

• O daisy mine, what will it be to look / From God's side even of such a simple thing?

  Alice Meynell

  Simple, Looks, Sides

  Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch

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• I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.

  Carrie Fisher

  Giving, Advice, Motto

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• I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since.

  Amy Tan

  Daughter, Swimming, Mind

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.242, Penguin

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• What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Precious Stones, Vices, May

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.210

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• I'm a work horse. I like to work. I always did. I think that there is such a thing as energy, creation overflowing. And I always felt that I have this great energy and it was bound to sort of burst at the seams, so that my work automatically took its place with a mind like mine. I've never had a day when I didn't want to work. I've never had a day like that. And I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy. I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working. ... In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Horse, Work, Thinking

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• If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to which nought but the refined and exquisite sadness of a violin could do justice. Many might be likened unto common pianos, jangling and out of tune, and some to the feeble piping of a penny whistle, and mine could be told with a couple of nails in a rusty tin-pot.

  Miles Franklin

  Couple, Sadness, Piano

  Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.456, The Floating Press

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• Elizabeth Hardwick told me once that all her first drafts sounded as if a chicken had written them. So do mine for the most part.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Firsts, Chickens, Written

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• Be mine that silent calm repast,
  A conscience cheerful to the last:
  That tree which bears immortal fruit,
  Without a canker at the root;
  That friend which never fails the just,
  When other friends desert their trust.

  Nathaniel Cotton

  Roots, Tree, Cheerful

  John Gilbert Cooper, Nathaniel Cotton (1822). “The Poems of Cooper, and Cotton”, p.274

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• Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.

  Hedda Hopper

  Kings, Gold, Towns

  Hedda Hopper (1963). “the Whole Truth and Nothing But”

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• [To Oleg Cassini:] Just make sure no one has exactly the same dress I do ... I want all of mine to be original & no fat little woman hopping around in the same dress.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Dresses, Want, Littles

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• There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Views, Perspective, Three

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• For those who have experienced the joy of being alone with nature there is really little need for me to say much more; for those who have not, no words of mine can ever describe the powerful, almost mystical knowledge of beauty and eternity that come, suddenly, and all unexpected.

  Jane Goodall

  Nature, Powerful, Joy

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• [To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

  Elizabeth I

  Settling, Parliament, Duty

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• Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.

  Countee Cullen

  Prayer, Wine, Dark

  Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.52, Library of America

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• I knew a book of mine was finished when I was in intensive care.

  Kate Braverman

  Book, Care, Finished

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• Any friend of fossil is a friend of mine... We’ve got to do everything we can to get people out of their automobiles and into mass transit.

  Michael Bloomberg

  People, Mass Transit, Fossils

  "New York's Bloomberg takes SUV to green car event" by Tim McLaughlin, uk.reuters.com. June 15, 2007.

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• Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Fur, Trouble, Easy

  Alice Hegan Rice (2015). “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch”, p.121, University Press of Kentucky

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• To say I love you is to say that you are not mine, but rather your own.

  Carter Heyward

  Love You, Say I Love You

  Carter Heyward (2010). “The Redemption of God: A Theology of Mutual Relation”, p.225, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I put on the page a third look at what I've seen in life - the reinvented experience of a cross-eyed working-class lesbian, addicted to violence, language and hope, who has made the decision to live, is determined to live, on the page and on the street, for me and mine.

  Dorothy Allison

  Determination, Class, Decision

  Dorothy Allison (2002). “Trash”, p.19, Penguin

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• I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.

  Mem Fox

  Education, Art, Grief

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• If everyone had a dad like mine, no one would have sex tapes.

  Tina Fey

  Sex, Dad, Tape

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• I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred thousand dollars there and immediately buys a yacht, begins to race fast horses, and becomes a sport generally. My tastes lie in a different direction. When business hours are over I go home and spend the remainder of the day with my wife, my children, and books of my library. Every man has natural inclinations of his own. Mine are domestic. They are not calculated to make me particularly popular in Wall Street, and I cannot help that.

  Jay Gould

  Sports, Horse, Children

  "The Life and Legend of Jay Gould". Book by Maury Klein, 1986.

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• If anybody wants to engage in any kind of sexual activity with any consenting partner, that is their business. Anybody can do anything they damn well please, as long as the relationship isn't exploitive. And I don't feel that legality should have anything to do with it. There are certain bodily functions of mine which I will not allow to be supervised.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Should Have, Long, Want

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• When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of them ... I call it my Necklace of Perfect Joy. When the world goes wrong, I have only to close my eyes and remember all the links in my chain, set with gems, some large and some small, but all beautiful with the beauty which never fades. It is all I can take with me when I go. My material possessions must stay behind, but my Necklace of Perfect Joy will bring me happiness to the end, when I put it on, to be nevermore unclasped.

  Myrtle Reed

  Beautiful, Eye, Dark

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• Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would have changed; there is no moment when I would have you other than you have been. It is the fashion these days, I know, to say that love ends at the altar, but it is not so. You and I have found the old dream of the world divinely true. It is neither a poet's fancy nor a trick of the imagination, but a thing of fadeless and unending beauty.

  Myrtle Reed

  Dream, Fashion, Heart

  Myrtle Reed (1906). “Later Love Letters of a Musician”

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