Brigham Young Quotes

Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin.

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• I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Great
  • Myself
  • Beauty

• I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Devil

• Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Done
  • Day

• Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Quantity

• They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Work
  • Long
  • Bad

• The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Calm
  • Worried

• I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Never
  • Horrible

• Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Islamic
  • Nations
  • Philippines

• The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Father

• I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Try

• When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Singing
  • Notes
  • Dots

• Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Kids
  • Amazing
  • Strange

• It's the way you ride the trail that counts.

  

  Dale Evans
  • You
  • Ride
  • Trail

• I love working with women.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Women
  • Love
  • Working

• Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Up
  • Political

• If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Life
  • Wish
  • Alternative

• No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • Need
  • Research

• The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Life
  • Good
  • Truth

• Can Ken Starr ignore the apparent breadth of the sympathetic response to the President's speech? Facially, it finally dawned on me that the person Ken Starr has reminded me of facially all this time was Heinrich Himmler, including the glasses. If he now pursues the President of the United States, who, however flawed his apology was, came out and invoked God, family, his daughter, a political conspiracy and everything but the kitchen sink, would not there be some sort of comparison to a persecutor as opposed to a prosecutor for Mr. Starr?

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Time
  • God
  • Family

• I knew boxing before I knew anything else.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Boxing
  • Anything
  • Before

• As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Love
  • American

• We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

  

  Alexander Herzen
  • World
  • Prayer

• Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Man
  • Prayer
  • Sin