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.

Jasmine Guinness

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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

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

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Skin

• 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

• Being that can be understood is language.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

• There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state, the majesty of the people, call it what you will - a doge, an avoyer, an archon, a president, a consul, a syndic; this becomes at once an object of ambition and dispute, and, in time, of division, faction, sedition, and rebellion.

  

  John Adams
  • People
  • Time
  • Ambition

• Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Action
  • Paradise

• And he still thinks, in the little bit of his head that's still him, that he's not a zombie. That he's not dead, that there's a threshold he hasn't stepped over. But he crossed it long time ago.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Time
  • Long

• Usually, when you get early versions of scripts, they are not very good. I found 'Borgen' amazing from the very first read-through because of how fast-paced and gripping it was. It felt more international because of the way it didn't dwell on the characters' personal lives as many Danish shows used to, but still, nobody thought it would travel.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • Good
  • Amazing
  • Travel

• When Jesse started to cry, I found that I'd been expecting it. I know a breakdown when I see one. In the kitchenette behind me, my phone flashed into life, but I knew the importance of what Dr. Adil calls full-body listening when someone is trying to unburden. You take your attention away at the wrong moment, you even mistime your blinks, and the trust is gone.

  

  Erin Kelly
  • Attention
  • Trust
  • Expecting

• I think there's something very lovely and hilarious about exploring the particular neuroses of the female mind. It's just not the same thing with men. I mean, there are exceptions, but for the most part, women beat themselves up in their heads more. They overanalyze stuff far more than men do.

  

  Lizzy Caplan
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Find
  • Come
  • Predict

• For what are we but our past? If that is lost, we become nothing.

  

  Iain Pears
  • Past
  • Lost
  • Our Past

• 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