James Thomson Quotes

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

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• My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • God
  • Home

• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Proud

• As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.

  

  Hank Stram
  • People
  • Life
  • Day

• That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Goal
  • Win
  • Come

• Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • People
  • God
  • Thinking

• I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.

  

  Ina Garten
  • People
  • Better
  • Garden

• If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Doing
  • Old
  • Fast

• All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Touching
  • Originally

• Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Step
  • Slow
  • Steady

• Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that's a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Happiness

• Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'

  

  Samantha Power
  • Long
  • Political
  • Education

• Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Wrong

• Because of my job, I get a lot of opportunity to grab a few days here and there in many cool cities for press commitments, magazine shoots and premieres - Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Berlin. I always try to get to a gallery or museum if there's time.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Time
  • Job
  • Opportunity

• You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Home
  • Know
  • Events

• I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Good
  • Business
  • Sound

• ...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • History
  • Imagination
  • Disordered

• Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience.

  

  Jason Moore

• pain is inevitable,suffering is optional... we have bigger houses,but smaller families. More conveniences,but less time. We have knowledge,but less judgements; more experts,but more problems ; more medicines but less health.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • House
  • Knowledge

• When I was a teenager, the way some of these kids out here be actively gay, it would have been ridiculed in the hood. And now the hood is a bit more accepting. Begrudgingly accepting, but definitely more accepting than 20 years ago when I was a little kid. That doesn't mean that anybody should stop fighting for equality just because people are begrudgingly a little more accepting.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Kids
  • Mean
  • Fighting

• But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

  

  James Thomson
  • Nature
  • Imagination
  • Gay