Matthew Arnold Quotes
Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye? When did music come this way? Children dear, was it yesterday?
Quotes to Explore
-
I have selective hearing.
-
In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
-
Remember daydreams? No, of course you don't. How could you? Three new text messages have just arrived, and another three, in a moment, will go out.
-
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
-
I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.
-
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
-
If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
-
Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
-
People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
-
Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
-
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
-
My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.
-
People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
-
I think I'm a very intuitive actress.
-
The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
-
How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
-
I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
-
Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
-
The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they took as witness for their constancy a sky that is not the same for a single instant; everything changed in them and around them, and they believed their hearts free of vicissitudes. O children! always children!
-
I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel the darkness of the cry. I want words as rough as virgin rocks.” - Verb.
-
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
-
America rules the world - by force.
-
Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye? When did music come this way? Children dear, was it yesterday?
