Comment on her sex symbol status, quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 40
Context: That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather it be sex than some of the things we've got symbols of... I just hate to be a thing.
Comment on her sex symbol status, quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 40
Source: https://inews.co.uk/light-relief/jokes/victoria-wood-jokes-146280
Koivisto in an interview on a Russian radio channel on 26 June 2002. Presidentti Koiviston vierailu Moskovaan esillä venäläismediassa http://formin.finland.fi/public/?contentid=57319&contentlan=1&culture=fi-FI Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. 3 July 2002. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
Noah BenShea, Great Quotes to Inspire Great Teachers, Corwin Press, 2001, ISBN 0761945407, p. 78.
Attributed
A Sea Dirge, st.1
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)
“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”
Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
“I only hate two things - living things, and objects.”
The Pall-Bearer's Revue (1992)
(20 December 2004)
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2004
Context: I'm not kidding, and I'm not being hyperbolic — sometimes I hate this thing I do more than I could ever say. Sometimes, it seems that I spend my days dragging people whose only crime is that I am their creator through the filth and pain and degradation of my own despicable imagination. Where is the good in this? Where is the resolution? Where is the sense of it? If I had even a scintilla of belief in a "higher" intelligence of any sort, days like yesterday (and, by extension, today) would, on the one hand, give me some degree of sympathy for the idiot dieties unable to craft a better universe, and, on the other hand, it makes me grateful I have no such beliefs, because the anger I would have for that "higher" whatever would be inexpressible. And I cannot imagine that there are actually people out there — self-professed "horror" writers — who are trying to elicit these emotions in others, who are purposefully driving their characters on through all the futile, dead-end nightmares that might be devised. I would not do this. I swear I would not do this, if I could find other words in me.
