Hard Quote by Rebecca West Download Open image “It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.” — Rebecca West ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hard History Smell Sometimes
we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful. — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Basically, there are three ways the skunk and I are a lot alike. The first is, we both like to spread our "stink" around.… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you get in a fight with a skunk, you can't tell who started it. — Lloyd Doggett Copy Share Image
“One thing about a skunk—once you recognize the markings, you know things are gonna stink.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
It's not the skunk's fault that he's a skunk or that he gives off this really bad stink. If I am a skunk, I… — Hrithik Roshan Copy Share Image
“History was like an old house at night. With all the lamps lit. And ancestor whispering inside. To understand history, we have to go… — Arundhati Roy; The God of Small Things Copy Share Image
History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If you see an animal and you can't tell if it's a skunk or a cat, here's a good saying to help: "Black-and-white, stinks… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people prefer a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I love the smell of skunks. Driving down a back road and you smell a skunk that's sprayed or been hit. I love that.… — Dustin Lynch Copy Share Image
I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that sometimes one needs help with moving the piano.” — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“At the top of a hill our automobile stuck in a snowdrift. Peasants ran out of a cottage near by, shouting with laughter because… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world... — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
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America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
High school, going into my junior year, I kind of had the idea I was going to be the starting running back. I was… — Saquon Barkley Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl. — An Na Copy Share Image
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