Emilia Wickstead Quotes

I love the idea of a dress or a coatdress rather than a suit with a jacket.

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• House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Game
  • House
  • Film

• I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Good
  • Art
  • Details

• We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Fly

• It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Different
  • Hate
  • Always

• I'm proud to be among a bipartisan group of state attorneys general who consistently advocate against government infringement of Americans' Second Amendment rights.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Government
  • Proud
  • Group

• I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Happy
  • Rich
  • Concentration

• I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • American
  • Culture
  • Gangster

• When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Powerful

• Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Time
  • You
  • Sexuality

• It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Good
  • Love
  • Friends

• Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Work
  • Waiting
  • Work Hard

• In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Believe
  • May
  • Double

• I quickly realised that it is difficult to get started when writing a novel. You have this dream of what you want to create, but it is like walking around a swimming pool and hesitating to jump in because the water is too cold.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Writing
  • Dream
  • Water

• I love to vacuum. There's just something so satisfying about hearing detritus sucked up into a vacuum. Sand makes such a great sound when being vacuumed off a hardwood floor.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Great
  • Sound
  • Hearing

• What life have you, if you have not life together? There is not life that is not in community, And no community not lived in praise of GOD.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • God
  • Together

• Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretirt; es kommt aber darauf an, sie zu verändern.1

  

  Karl Marx
  • Die

• Whereas it might be erroneous to claim that the literature, art, and music of the Harlem Renaissance revolutionized the practice of democracy in the United States, it would not be an error to point out that the ideas they championed did impact America's understanding, and subsequently its application, of democracy.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Music
  • Art
  • America

• Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Moving

• We do not require elaborate training merely in order to refrain from embarking upon intricate trains of inference. Such abstinence is only too easy.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Training

• In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee

• I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and invite God and his angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

  

  John Donne
  • God
  • Door
  • Fly

• The need to protect the environment has emerged as an undeniably important priority for me.

  

  Lily Cole
  • Important
  • Environment
  • Priority

• History is sympathetic to its authors.

  

  John McAfee
  • History

• I love the idea of a dress or a coatdress rather than a suit with a jacket.

  

  Emilia Wickstead