Dora Russell Quotes

You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.

Dora Russell

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• College
• Tea

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• I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.

  

  Adam Goldberg
  • Me
  • Known
  • Sure

• One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Know
  • Never
  • Lies

• I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Want
  • Number
  • Object

• You create your own material to try to get it out there because a lot of people are multi-hyphenates, to use the corporate term. You're creating stuff to be in in order to showcase all your talents. I think the idea of using YouTube and the Internet, you don't have to wait around for a network to buy your show.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Think
  • Internet

• English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Live
  • Free

• I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Children
  • Healthy
  • Now

• Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Problem
  • Students
  • Israel

• The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Change
  • Same

• Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • She
  • Game

• I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.

  

  Imelda May
  • Kind
  • Inspired
  • Wind

• I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Rock
  • Pop
  • Seventies

• People review my comic books. People review every article I write - 'The Atlantic' even publishes them. A great deal of the critique of 'Between the World and Me' was from a feminist perspective. bell hooks pushed back, among others. Some of that has value. Some of it does not. I try my best to separate the wheat from the chaff.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.

  

  Iman
  • Soul
  • Stop
  • Myself

• Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Hand

• I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Want
  • Know
  • Learn

• I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Life
  • Good
  • Science

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Home
  • Play
  • Baby

• I was truly honored to work with legendary DJ and producer DJ Premier. I still can't believe I have a track with Premier; it really is one of the best songs I've written in a long time.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Work
  • Believe

• It turns out one of my dad's best friends was Carl Sagan when I was little. They were both Harvard professors.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Friends
  • Dad

• A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather than by violence. He is a man who would rather be unsuccessful in convincing another man by argument than successful in crushing him by force, by intimidation and threats, or even by persuasive propaganda.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Violence

• The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

  

  Dave Barry
  • Men
  • Truth
  • American

• I am gay. I am a Jew. My mother lost over a dozen of her family to Hitler's anti-Semitism. Every time in Russia (and it is constantly) a gay teenager is forced into suicide, a lesbian 'correctively' raped, gay men and women beaten to death by neo-Nazi thugs while the Russian police stand idly by, the world is diminished and I for one, weep anew at seeing history repeat itself.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • World
  • Men
  • Mother

• He had doubts about the utility of examination on subjects which had been crammed for the occasion. He wanted common sense.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

• You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.

  

  Dora Russell
  • Men
  • College
  • Tea