Douglas William Jerrold Quotes

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Douglas William Jerrold

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• When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Love
  • Teacher
  • Magic

• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Community
  • Build
  • Hats

• Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Light
  • Surprise
  • Engineers

• I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Children
  • Think
  • Nice

• I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Focus
  • Myself
  • Thought

• If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Morning
  • Coffee
  • Ice

• It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Impossible
  • Conversation

• Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Death
  • Find
  • Maybe

• I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Think
  • Want
  • Name

• You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Faith
  • Know
  • Doubt

• I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Think
  • Best

• I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Never
  • Getting
  • Knew

• I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Thought
  • Will
  • Anybody

• There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • May
  • Idea
  • Original

• I keep everything that's private private.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Everything
  • Keep
  • Private

• I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Used
  • Dancing
  • Go

• Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Life
  • Up
  • Nobody

• I saw 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was four years old. Sure, I thought Princess Leia was awesome. But the character I identified with most was Luke Skywalker. I left the theater certain the Force was strong with me, that I could train to be a Jedi and wield a lightsaber just like Luke.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Time
  • Character
  • Strong

• I did two records with DJ Mustard. They were stupid, like, crazy hits, so we just kept on working, and we did a whole project together, so we got that coming.

  

  Dimitri Leslie Roger
  • Together
  • Crazy
  • Stupid

• Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Crime
  • Conviction
  • Courtroom

• Take the back roads instead of the highways.

  

  Minnie Pearl
  • Travel
  • Roads
  • Highways

• There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

  

  Douglas William Jerrold
  • War
  • Peace