Emily Carr Quotes

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

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• Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Music
  • Me
  • Just

• I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • People
  • Myself
  • Week

• The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that made me want to do 'The Stand.' The more you can do, the better, and I've been known as a character actor.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Character
  • Chance
  • Romantic

• I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Star

• When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Live
  • Door

• Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.

  

  Hansjorg Wyss
  • Hope
  • Me
  • Knows

• It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
  • History
  • Achieving

• In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Society
  • Eyes
  • Morning

• We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Book
  • Day
  • Everyday

• During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Time
  • Men
  • Competition

• A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Beautiful
  • Woman
  • Ugly

• I would have 55 dogs if I could. I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Day
  • Open
  • Dogs

• Then I turned round and saw the British Union Jack under which I had been sitting and it was then that I realised that my poor country, India, did not even have a flag of her own - and it was this that triggered off my complete breakdown.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Country

• …the British. Haughty, white, fat, ugly, by no means sympathique, cold…

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Cold
  • Ugly

• 'It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved,' she explained.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • She

• When John Lennon sings, 'Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes are wide open' - these songs have an intimacy for me that's not just between people, I realize now, not just sexual intimacy. A spiritual intimacy.

  

  Bono U2
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Style
  • Model
  • Photography

• I don't think Trump is a conservative. I think he is a man without any fixed principles. And to the extent he does have any ideology, it owes far more to European-style National Front right-wing politics than to American conservatism.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • American
  • Style
  • Trump

• At the end of the day, we all know what the Jordan logo means, and you can't take anything away from that. But it's pretty cool to have my own logo on a Jordan shoe.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

  

  Max Cannon
  • Up
  • Family
  • Control

• Uncommon valor was a common virtue.

  

  Chester W. Nimitz

• When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.

  

  John Carpenter
  • World
  • Science
  • Unknown

• Why are people making it so difficult for girls to live the way they want to in India? Let's not make India a place where a girl has to think 10 times before going out or wearing what she wants.

  

  Nia Sharma
  • People
  • Live
  • Why

• Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

  

  Emily Carr