Charlotte Lennox Quotes

Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.

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• No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

  

  Beck
  • Artist
  • Drive
  • Bargain

• A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Time
  • Country
  • Movie

• I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Knew
  • Wrote

• No one knows the cost of a defective product – don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Me
  • Cost
  • Customer

• Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • You
  • Violence
  • Better

• Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.

  

  Hal Lindsey
  • World
  • Stop
  • See

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Sound
  • Strange
  • Table

• I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Very
  • Sensitive

• I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • God
  • Religion
  • Greek

• I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • God
  • Mind

• In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Religious
  • Values
  • Harmony

• Family is extremely important, and home is wherever they're waiting for you. No matter where you are, if you have great support, that's all that matters.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Great
  • Important
  • Family

• The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Great
  • Alone
  • Struggle

• If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Scary
  • Honest
  • Really

• Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Die
  • Brother

• I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Experience
  • Technology
  • Films

• He seemed to weave, like the spider, from pure impulse, without reflection. Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.

  

  George Eliot
  • Life
  • Work
  • Reflection

• He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Lost
  • Desire
  • Possessed

• I hope to live long and be happy. But I'd like to be remembered as somebody who did good rather than mischief.

  

  Mary Archer
  • Good
  • Long
  • Live

• It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but only what kind of quick, easy outer impression they give. If so, there is little hope for our cities or probably for much else in our society. But I do not think this is so.

  

  Jane Jacobs
  • People
  • Work
  • May

• There was no real need...of crasting any more pretty polly to tolchock some old veck in an alley and viddy him swim in his blood while we counted the takings and divided by four, nor to do the ultra-violent on some shivering starry grey-haired ptitsa in a shop and go smecking off with the till’s guts.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Real
  • Pretty

• Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.

  

  Charlotte Lennox
  • May
  • Nature
  • Changes