"Picking other people's brains is an art worth…" — Jessica Mitford
"Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating."
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14 Quotes by Jessica Mitford
Jessica Mitford has 14 quotes on this site.
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When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch,…
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Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'
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I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.
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Objectivity? I've always had an objective.
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Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.
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Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.
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One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just…
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I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are…
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It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.
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Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn…
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You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
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Objectivity? I always have an objective.
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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