Mark Akenside Quotes

The Providence of heavenHas some peculiar blessing givenTo each allotted state below.

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• 'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.

  

  Halsey
  • Sound
  • Rocks
  • Landscape

• The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Think
  • Change
  • Thoughts

• I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Funny
  • Me

• Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Politics
  • Human
  • Expression

• There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Dark

• India is my kid sister.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Sister
  • Kid
  • India

• We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.

  

  Barry Corbin
  • Need
  • Public
  • Still

• I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Night
  • Yourself
  • Talk

• I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Right
  • Down
  • Holding

• I have made a lot of mistakes raising the four Jenner kids.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kids
  • Made
  • Mistakes

• The 18,000 NASA employees are full of galactic talents and abilities and are ready to accomplish whatever they're directed to do.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Ready
  • Accomplish
  • Talents

• Austin is almost a million people, but it still feels like a relatively small town. Everybody knows each other. Or at least everyone in the filmmaking community.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • People
  • Small
  • Community

• I've found the world's most versatile word - 'cheeky.' The amount of ways you guys can use the word 'cheeky' is quite impressive.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • World
  • You
  • Most

• The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Life
  • Women
  • Dream

• Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Important
  • Earth
  • Stress

• Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

  

  Walter Lord
  • Me
  • Courage
  • Intellectual

• I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage - they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Relationship
  • Health
  • Value

• Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to contribute to, people approach me and say, 'Hey, would you like to do this?' I laugh out loud and say, 'Yes, that'd be funny.' Or, I'm very moved by what I read and say, 'Yes. How can I help you?'

  

  John Cena
  • People
  • Help
  • Funny

• The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.

  

  Annie Jacobsen
  • Truth
  • War
  • Reality

• I love acting, but I am a mom, and the roles just weren't coming because of a mixture of things: because I'm not ambitious, and because I'm older, and I had a baby. I really felt like I had said a graceful and completely happy goodbye to acting in a significant way. And I had sort of made my peace with that.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Happy
  • Peace
  • Mom

• I love wild, baroque, slightly excessive theatrical ideas, and because television needs so much material, there's a chance to get some of those odd ideas done.

  

  Yvette Mimieux
  • Done

• In 1991, the government unleashed the power of India and created a partnership between itself and industry. As a result, India has emerged as an economic success story, and that is a matter of pride for all of us.

  

  Kumar Mangalam Birla
  • Power
  • Success
  • Pride

• The Providence of heavenHas some peculiar blessing givenTo each allotted state below.

  

  Mark Akenside