Penelope Keith Quotes

Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.

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• I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Drama

• Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Done
  • Know
  • Always

• No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Politics
  • Interested
  • Did

• If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitation in the fitting room and just walk away.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Good
  • Walk
  • Feel Good

• It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

  

  Beatrix Potter
  • Said
  • Eating
  • Too Much

• There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Help
  • Support
  • Search

• I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.

  

  Vanity
  • Career
  • Singing
  • Chance

• Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Humanity
  • Sense

• The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Right
  • Define
  • Imperative

• Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Time
  • Great
  • Legal

• Amiri Baraka went to Howard. Lucille Clifton went to Howard. Ossie Davis went to Howard. And I was aware of that when I was there. Charles Drew went to Howard. Thurgood Marshall went to the law school. Being aware of that and having all of that brought to bear, again, it's one of those things that I can't really separate from my career as a writer.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • School
  • Career
  • Law

• There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Think
  • Song
  • Master

• It takes a lot of intellect to have faith, which is why so many people only have religiosity.... I'm against people taking the Bible absolutely literally, rather than letting some of it be real fantasy, like Jonah... Faith is best expressed in story.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind,And makes the happiness she does not find.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • She
  • Wisdom

• Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Life
  • Serious
  • Son

• Beauty is something that disappears when you try to define it.

  

  Iain Banks

• Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual will never find the real justification for his existence, and his own spiritual and moral autonomy, anywhere except in an extramundane principle capable of relativizing the overpowering influence of external factors.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Long
  • Real
  • Community

• No matter how far those dreams have taken me, I have always remembered, I’m the daughter of a small-business owner and the granddaughter of a factory worker - and proud of both.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Business
  • Small
  • Proud

• My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT, so even if I want to take the LSAT again, I know what I'm getting into. I'll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows, maybe with my popularity, I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think it'll work out either way.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • Political
  • Careers
  • Degrees

• This movie is about the fact that personal repression gives rise to larger political oppression.… That when we're afraid of certain things in ourselves or we're afraid of change, we project those fears on to other things, and a lot of very ugly social situations can develop.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Political
  • Ugly

• The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful
  • Never

• It is relatively impossible for people to have clear perspectives on themselves when they're in the midst of them, and often harder to recollect after the times, eras, and situations themselves have passed.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • People

• Puffy produced four of the tracks on the album. Those are the four songs that are collaborations between Puffy and me. And he gives me my space to work even when we work together, like with my producer and my vocal coach.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • Work
  • Together
  • Space

• Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.

  

  Penelope Keith
  • Ugly