Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
-
When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
-
When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
-
And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
-
One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.
-
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
-
Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.
-
My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.
-
I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
-
Most of the time, I'm not even working; I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.
-
My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop.
-
The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?
-
I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
-
I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.
-
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
-
The first thing I did that was at all in the public eye, other than on stage, was 'Oz,' in which I played the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in a maximum-security prison.
-
A very unclubable man.
-
When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.
-
Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.
-
When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
-
We adore perfection because we can't have it; it would disgust us if we had it. Perfect is inhuman, because human is imperfect.
-
The reason that economic textbooks now begin with imaginary villages is because it has been impossible to talk about real ones. Even some economists have been forced to admit that Smith's Land of Barter doesn't really exist.The question is why the myth is perpetuated anyway.
-
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
