James Martineau Quotes

The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an instrument of trade-this is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechanism of existence.

James Martineau

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• Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Happiness

• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Game

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Deep
  • Almost
  • Zone

• D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Great
  • You
  • Year

• I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Men
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Art
  • Travel
  • Teacher

• Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Deep
  • Very
  • New Years

• Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Family
  • Mental Illness

• Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Time
  • Work
  • Like

• Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

  

  Mae West
  • Up
  • Time
  • You

• If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Vision

• I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Baby

• Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Man

• I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • America
  • Working
  • Class

• Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Great
  • Warm
  • Velvet

• People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Talk
  • Expect

• My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Good
  • Work
  • Famous

• I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV came along I would do it. But I don't want to do a recurring role. It would just be my luck that the thing would be successful. I'm old enough now and also secure enough financially that I really only want to do what I want to do.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Life
  • Black
  • Successful

• Never thought I'd be a bobble-head, but little did I know.

  

  Kenan Thompson

• I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Die
  • Grandparents
  • Village

• Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.

  

  Marisol Nichols
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an instrument of trade-this is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechanism of existence.

  

  James Martineau
  • Life
  • Years
  • Lapse