Kenneth Tynan Quotes

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

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• Long hair, for me, is actually less maintenance. I went through a phase when I was kid where I wanted a pixie cut. At the time I thought it looked awesome, but I look back and I looked like such a dork! When I have short hair, I feel like I have to blow dry it, or it doesn't sit properly.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hair

• There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Good
  • Relationship
  • Fashion

• The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • People
  • Think
  • Ride

• Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Problem
  • Poor
  • Down

• I'm not difficult to work with, trust me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Work
  • Trust
  • Difficult

• Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • People
  • Music
  • American

• Let students use technologies in the classroom.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Use
  • Students
  • Classroom

• I've always kept fit but I've been doing gym and yoga and will be throwing my stilettoes away for a while!

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Always
  • Doing
  • Yoga

• One can't feel old in a day or overnight!

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Day
  • Feel
  • Old

• Who likes the little little duckies in the pond? I do, I do, I do, a-chicka quack quack.

  

  Ze Frank

• To-day, the road all runners come,Shoulder-high, we bring you home,And set you at your threshold down,Townsman of a stiller town.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Home
  • High
  • Road

• The dust we tread upon was once alive.

  

  Lord Byron

• A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Light
  • Shadow

• The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron - and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring - embody the American dream of Eden.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • American
  • Dream
  • Blessed

• If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Proud

• The mistake is to think that clever technology can solve everything, but it can't solve our relationship with nature, which is where I think it's gone wrong in that we have somehow abandoned our proper connection with nature.

  

  Prince Charles
  • Nature
  • Relationship
  • Technology

• I'm a little bit of an obsessed artist, and I'm not very talented. But isn't Suzanne Somers a bad painter?

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Bad

• As the OLPC laptop was getting ready to go into mass production in 2007, many executives approached me wanting the screen that I invented, and the laptop architecture that I co-invented, for their new laptops, cell phones, and other devices.

  

  Mary Lou Jepsen
  • Architecture

• What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred.

  

  Antony Beevor

• I think one of the most important attributes is perseverance.

  

  David Rose
  • Important
  • Perseverance

• Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

  

  Kenneth Tynan