Matthew Arnold Quotes

Ennobling this dull pomp, the life of kings, By contemplation of diviner things.

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• For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Rest

• The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Great
  • Different
  • America

• It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.

  

  Washed Out
  • Song
  • Interesting
  • Easy

• When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Die
  • Day
  • Myself

• There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Change

• I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Look
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Up
  • You
  • Start

• Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • History
  • Deep
  • Modernity

• We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • God
  • Man
  • Philosophy

• Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Movies
  • Only
  • Ruin

• Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Government
  • Innovation

• Too clever is dumb.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Dumb
  • Clever
  • Too

• As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • High
  • Myself

• Of course, I will continue acting. I just need to dispel the Telugu and Tamil cinema's insecurities about married actresses. I don't know about others. But I am not going anywhere after marriage.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Marriage
  • Acting
  • Cinema

• It's a lot harder to stick to my regime when I'm travelling, so when I'm home, I make sure that when I wake up in the morning, I drink one litre of water with lemon to cleanse my body from the inside, and then I'll have a big jar of vegetable juice.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Up
  • Home
  • Water

• As a dancer running around the world, I always questioned whether that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • World
  • Running
  • Always

• I think men are, like, repulsive, and I prefer being in a room with women. I think they're often just more interesting.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Men
  • Women
  • Think

• Make yourself necessary to somebody.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Yourself
  • Make
  • Somebody

• The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Reason
  • Poet
  • Himself

• If a stranger is writing something completely fictitious, or insulting me on a blog or a tabloid, I don't take it personally.

  

  Dasha Zhukova
  • Writing

• That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Mind
  • Forever

• I'm an actor, because I get to see other sides of life and I get to be other people and it excites me so much.

  

  Callum Blue
  • People
  • Life
  • Actor

• Basically, I thought for a very long time that making music and art projects, that that was just something that I did, and real life was separate. And I'm starting to realize that the things that I do, making music and art and photography and all that, it's not just something that I do. It's who I am. So I don't think I'll ever be able to stop. It's like that curse that you live with, this thing that you love but you also hate it at the same time. It brings you a lot of joy but also a lot of heartbreak.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• Ennobling this dull pomp, the life of kings, By contemplation of diviner things.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Life