Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

Man, through all ages of revolving time, Unchanging man, in every varying clime, Deems his own land of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven o'er all the world beside; Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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• I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Down

• Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • School
  • Future
  • Science

• I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Thinking
  • Never
  • Film

• One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • You
  • Going
  • Places

• 'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Difficult

• Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Death
  • Always
  • Sword

• You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Happy
  • Team
  • Day

• I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Done
  • Health
  • Day

• As you keep your mind and heart focused in the right direction, approaching each day with faith and gratitude, I believe you will be empowered to live life to the fullest and enjoy the abundant life He has promised you!

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Live

• Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Feel

• My curiosity sister of larks.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Sister
  • Curiosity

• Sometimes in politics and even in life you need to take the tough and difficult decisions which you know would be good for you and the country in the medium and long term

  

  Najib Razak
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Trust

• I never saw Portsmouth by day.

  

  Quentin Crisp

• You really don’t have a life when you’re working. I always think 'oh, I’m gonna see everybody on my days off. I’m gonna read so many books and see so many films' and then three months go by...

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life

• For me, art has neither past nor future. All I have ever made was for the present.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Future
  • Past

• Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.

  

  Colin Powell
  • Simple
  • Army

• I love challenges.

  

  Andrew Whitworth

• I mean, roots musicians - we can get old, you know? We can get up there and wear overalls and deliver the songs, we don't have to look any certain way.

  

  Valerie June
  • Up

• If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Up
  • Death
  • Smart

• I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

  

  Neville Marriner
  • People

• I will always face the conundrum that the subjects I'm attracted to aren't essentially commercial.

  

  Debra Granik

• Man, through all ages of revolving time, Unchanging man, in every varying clime, Deems his own land of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven o'er all the world beside; Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Pride
  • Blest
  • Revolving