Jasmine Guinness Quotes

I'm a total technophobe. What is wrong with paper and pen? I was delighted when I learnt the word 'Luddite,' as I thought it described me perfectly.

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• I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • School
  • Learning
  • Road

• It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Support

• The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Together
  • Career
  • Words

• It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Skin

• Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dream

• We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Time
  • Joy

• The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Human
  • Data
  • Volumes

• I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Attention

• I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Bad
  • Feeling

• I have had to come to terms with the fact that I am hooked on Twitter. Not good.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Twitter

• I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Best
  • Cultures
  • West

• I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Up
  • Time
  • Baseball

• Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every 'Idol' winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Music
  • Why
  • Success

• Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • May
  • Bad
  • Hope

• Fifth Harmony as a group represents more confidence, more girl power, more unity. They're anthems, as opposed to confessional songwriting about one person's life when there are five individual women.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Life
  • Women
  • Power

• It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Nature
  • Rebel
  • Human Nature

• With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there's no editing, so there's something more natural about the arc a character follows in a play. I think theater is more an actor's medium, whereas film is more a director's medium, because that's who controls the final feel of the film.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Character
  • Think
  • Nature

• So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Why
  • You
  • Write

• People are going to make comparisons and they can do that but I'm definitely not going to compare myself to Derek Jeter.

  

  Nomar Garciaparra
  • People
  • Compare
  • Comparison

• The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job
  • Pretty
  • Scary

• De poetas no digo: buen siglo es éste. Muchos están en ciernes para el año que viene; pero ninguno hay tan malo como Cervantes ni tan necio que alabe a don Quijote.

  

  Lope de Vega

• But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for . . .

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Live
  • Society
  • Die

• I'm a total technophobe. What is wrong with paper and pen? I was delighted when I learnt the word 'Luddite,' as I thought it described me perfectly.

  

  Jasmine Guinness