Mary Quant Quotes

I still like the King's Road. It is very alive; it is a hustle of things from different countries and so on. It is lovely.

Mary Quant

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• We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.

  

  Sam Houston
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  • Eye

• In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Great
  • God
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• Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Inspiration
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• Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Time
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• If people hate me they hate me.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • People
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• The words of truth are always paradoxical.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Always

• There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

  

  O. Henry
  • American
  • Day
  • Thanksgiving

• I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • Play
  • Lucky
  • Guess

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • People
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• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Important
  • Children
  • Food

• As a 17-year-old, I remember positively dreading dance sequences. I would come to shoots, quaking with nervousness at the idea of making other artistes do retakes due to my mistakes.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Remember
  • Dance
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• I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Brother
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• I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Good
  • Me
  • Comfortable

• Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Really
  • Active
  • Percent

• I'm spoiled - in all ways. I've been in a rock 'n' roll band since I was 13, and we had incredible success. When it ended, it had been so good that I just looked at it as time to try something different.

  

  Peter Noone
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Latin
  • Train
  • Arts

• It is not enough to prove something, one has also to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • People
  • Why
  • Knowledge

• The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• 'The Daily Show,' at its core, is the answer to the nightly news.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Daily
  • News
  • Answer

• I still like the King's Road. It is very alive; it is a hustle of things from different countries and so on. It is lovely.

  

  Mary Quant
  • Different
  • Road
  • King