Jane Gardam Quotes

I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.

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• Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Learn
  • Acting
  • Nation

• I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Men
  • Women
  • Movie

• I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Hate
  • Actor

• To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Up
  • Day
  • Water

• I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Short

• Yes it was we, are a few years back parted from our record company and took the album that we were making with them and released it independently in the United States had a number one Independent debut in the United States.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Years
  • Independent
  • Company

• I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Funny
  • Optimist
  • Carries

• It came so soon and so fast. It's just overwhelming. Every time I think about it, I just can't believe it.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Think

• I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• The cup of life is not so shallow That we have drained the best That all the wine at once we swallow And lees make all the rest.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Wine

• There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Nature
  • Jump

• People think I'm eccentric, cranky. If I'm eccentric because I've never been into mainstream things, then I am eccentric.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People

• In vain she told herself that he was unworthy any woman's trust and love, still the unconquerable sentiment that once made her happiness now remained to become her torment.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • She
  • Trust

• Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Alone

• The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • School
  • Book
  • History

• I think we could jam a bit more in our coffins than we do. I'm going to have some books, some I haven't finished or haven't read, some feathers and nice bits and pieces, the odd note. Just on the journey for the next bit.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Nice
  • Journey

• I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.

  

  Dawn Olivieri
  • Reading
  • Sweet

• My kids can't eat awards.

  

  Pitbull
  • Kids

• To apply oneself to great inventions, starting from the smallest beginnings, is no task for ordinary minds; to divine that wonderful arts lie hid behind trivial and childish things is a conception for superhuman talents.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Great

• I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

  

  Ahmet Zappa

• I can't understand why anyone would want to live the life of a politician if you can't say pretty much what you think. You are not in it for the money: there's unremitting pressure on your life, you give up so much of your privacy. It can only be because of the things you want to do and the things you want to say.

  

  Ken Livingstone
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Below seven hours of sleep, there are objective impairments in the body. Eight hours are recommended.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Sleep

• I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.

  

  Jane Gardam