Elizabeth Goudge Quotes

Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food.

Elizabeth Goudge

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• Humanity
• Literature
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• Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Taxes
  • Legal
  • Collecting

• Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Book
  • Name
  • Profound

• Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.

  

  Karen O
  • Amazing
  • Rock
  • Star

• An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

  

  W. E. B. Griffin
  • Author
  • Characters
  • Wants

• One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Energy
  • Ugly
  • Economic

• We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • World
  • Education
  • Focus

• When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Good
  • God
  • Sexy

• What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Love
  • Enthusiasm
  • Table

• Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Romantic

• When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Up
  • Music
  • Rock

• As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Me
  • Confidence

• We work for the public, and I believe that if a senator wants to block a piece of legislation or a nominee, they owe the public an explanation.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Work
  • Believe

• And it has some weight, I mean, the whole history of the gargoyles, that's some wonderful stuff.

  

  Keith David
  • History

• It's an experience I'd like to add to the chorus, that these blue-collar, macho men, like my older brother, had the capacity to say: 'I don't care, I love you anyway.' There are young kids thinking: 'I'll never come out because it's too hard in our communities.' But I'm saying maybe your story can be similar to mine.

  

  Colman Domingo
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Experience

• My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I've always learnt by watching what other people do. It's the same with my writing. I write what I know. Structurally, I write in a very undisciplined way.

  

  Colman Domingo
  • People
  • Writing

• We have to pay attention to developing well, in the correct manner, the human aspects also in the professions, in respect of other persons, in being concerned for others, which is the best way of being concerned for ourselves.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Respect
  • Attention

• You start singing by singing what you hear. So everyone, when they first start singing, they naturally are singing like whatever they're hearing, because that's the only way you learned how to sing. So when I was growing up on Lauryn Hill, when I started singing her songs, I literally trained my voice to be able to do runs.

  

  Kehlani
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Singing

• We're not trying to be a mega-pop-band, but we also wouldn't be opposed to selling millions of records, either.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Trying
  • Band

• I met Jason on a charity walk in 2001, and we got married on a friend's boat in Panama two years later. It was the perfect wedding for two people who'd already been married and who weren't teenagers.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Friend

• I believe you have constructive accidents en route through a novel only because you have mapped a clear way. If you have confidence that you have a clear direction to take, you always have confidence to explore other ways; if they prove to be mere digressions, you'll recognize that and make the necessary revisions.

  

  John Irving
  • Believe
  • Confidence
  • Explore

• Endure the journey that you take to reach your top moment. You might not get there right now but when you do, remember what you did to get there.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Remember
  • Journey

• I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Bad
  • Food
  • Pleasure

• Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.

  

  Philip Larkin
  • Life
  • Question
  • Literature

• Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Food
  • Humanity
  • Literature