Mary Shelley Quotes
The idea so possessed my mind, that a thrill of fear ran through me, and I wished to exchange the ghastly image of my fancy for the realities around. I see them still; the very room, the dark parquet, the closed shutters, with the moonlight struggling through, and the sense I had that the glassy lake and white high Alps were beyond.Mary Shelley
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
Vincent Cassel -
The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
Vanessa Hudgens -
It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.
Fidel Castro -
I just feel so flattered, because the cosplayers really make sure every detail is there. I don't think I've ever cosplayed a character before, but if I were to, I'd probably go as a Klingon from 'Star Trek.'
Karen Gillan -
I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
Samira Wiley -
I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
Calvin Klein
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
Malcolm Gladwell -
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
A. R. Ammons -
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
Quentin Crisp -
I was the hallway clown in high school.
J. B. Smoove -
With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
Taya Kyle -
You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
Ram Kapoor
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
Maika Monroe -
Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
Orison Swett Marden -
Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
K. Flay -
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
Wendell Berry -
I am doing characters that have so many layers. And I am very lucky that I show a lot of variety.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
Zendaya -
That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
Daniel Boulud -
I've learned by watching films that inspired me and people who inspired me like Robert Redford and Paul Newman. I love old school acting. I love subtlety, and I also love being spontaneous, and that's really what works for me.
Alex Pettyfer -
I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.
Marianne Faithfull -
You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.
H. G. Wells -
The idea so possessed my mind, that a thrill of fear ran through me, and I wished to exchange the ghastly image of my fancy for the realities around. I see them still; the very room, the dark parquet, the closed shutters, with the moonlight struggling through, and the sense I had that the glassy lake and white high Alps were beyond.
Mary Shelley