Quotes of: Private-life Keyword

I don't think anybody can claim success at any part of our lives, private or professional, if there are others that don't enjoy the same opportunities.

Jose Andres Puerta

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

C. Wright Mills

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Virginia Woolf

Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails.

Andy Coulson

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

Buzz Aldrin

I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.

Life

People think that I don't work, and I fly around in Oprah's private plane doing whatever I want.

Gayle King

It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

Kirsten Dunst

I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.

Trevor Nunn

I think that in itself, if you're a true golfer, you'll see specific things you need to work on. Much cheaper than private lessons.

Tiger Woods

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

Elizabeth Bowen

I may enter a zone of transcendence, in which I marvel at all the accidents of fate, since the beginning of life on earth, that led to my genes being created and my standing in this particular garden in a contemplative and imagining mind. I’ve been...

Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden

It is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the whole process. Tranquilizers and anesthetics, private and corporate, become the largest business in the world just as the world is a...

From Cliche To Archetype

Saints and bodhisattvas may achieve what Christians call mystical union or Buddhists call satori--a perpetual awareness of the force at the heart of the heart of things. For these enlightened few, the world is always lit. For the rest of us, such cla...

A Private History of Awe

Mr. Collins: Mrs. Bennet I was hoping, if it would not trouble you, that I might solicit a private audience with Miss Elizabeth in the course of the morning. Mrs. Bennet: Oh, yes. Certainly. Lizzy will be very happy indeed. Everyone, out. Mr. Collins...

Pride & Prejudice

Captain Miller: You see, when... when you end up killing one your men, you see, you tell yourself it happened so you could save the lives of two or three or ten others. Maybe a hundred others. Do you know how many men I've lost under my command? Serg...

Saving Private Ryan

Angel Salvadore: [Erik gives Angel a big tip] For that, daddy-o, you get a private dance. [In the private dance room] Angel Salvadore: You guys know it's a double for both, right? Professor Charles Xavier: Mmm, now that won't be necessary, although I...

X-Men: First Class

Private Detective Visser: You know, you know, a friend of mine a while back broke his hand and put it in a cast. Very next day, he falls, protects his bad hand, and he breaks his good one. So he breaks it too, you know. So, now he's got two busted fl...

Blood Simple.

Although my understanding of exactly how much trouble I was in grew more specific over time, as a child I surely understood enough about my condition to know it was something I'd better keep private. By intuition I was certain that the thing I knew t...

She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders

Once a person has been poisoned by self-deception, he can't make decisions about himself as neatly as all that," Himiko said, elaborating her friend's terrific prophecy; " You won't get a divorce Bird. You'll justify yourself like crazy, and try to s...

A Personal Matter

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

Blindness