Beverley Nichols Quotes
Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?Beverley Nichols
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I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.
Imran Amed -
If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
Najib Razak -
Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.
Saint Ambrose -
Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.
Sam Kean -
The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
Damon Galgut
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I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.
Jack Nicklaus -
The historian is a prophet looking backward.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.
Viggo Mortensen -
'When Marnie Was There' was the first animated film I've ever done.
Hailee Steinfeld -
There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
Victor Hugo -
My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.
Mamie Gummer
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
Irina Shayk -
I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s.
Garrett Hedlund -
My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
Walter Matthau -
I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.
Larry Hagman -
Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.
Garrett Hedlund -
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
Jean Houston
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If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
Ellen DeGeneres -
He gave us the gift of love and laughter, ... even in his passing.
Bob Denver -
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.
Gerard Manley Hopkins -
It was only in his rare moments of silence, when his face fell into repose and the laughter died out of his eyes and his full lips drooped one upon the other, that one observer in a thousand might have known him for a man who dared not think. In those moments he looked like a mangy, sad old lion looking out upon the splendor of the grand old days from behind the bars of his prison cell.
Elizabeth Goudge -
Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?
Beverley Nichols