Ralph Hodgson Quotes

God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas.

Ralph Hodgson

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• The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • World
  • Me
  • Blue

• The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Past
  • Water
  • Grind

• I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

  

  Lars Mikkelsen
  • Study
  • Military
  • Biology

• Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Anger
  • Ice

• I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Smell
  • Gardening

• I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Night
  • Hate
  • Makeup

• If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Times
  • Fail
  • Himself

• I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Music
  • Want
  • Act

• The score never interested me, only the game.

  

  Mae West
  • Game
  • Me
  • Never

• As far as the fouls go, we are not going to rely on anyone else to make the calls for us.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Going
  • Go
  • Far

• All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Human
  • Emotions
  • Laws

• Kids don't hesitate to ask questions. And it's a great honor to have the kids say, 'Your books have made me trust you.'

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Trust

• Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Riot
  • Armenians
  • Azerbaijanis

• You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Money

• If only all the contradictory voices shouting inside my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care so long as they sang without dissonance.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Long
  • Song
  • Calm

• Over the years, I've spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Time
  • Vacation

• Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.

  

  Jessica Capshaw
  • World
  • Health
  • Challenge

• Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Future
  • Past
  • Memories

• Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Car
  • Winning

• You're out there on an island. It's just you and the best receiver, man-to-man, in one-on-one coverage a lot of the time. And you don't really get any help. If you get beat, everyone can see. If you get scored on, everyone knows. That's the difficulty of playing corner.

  

  Chris Harris, Jr.
  • Time
  • Help

• When something in art or music piques my interest, I tend to go check it out, and most things I check out, I'm not very good at. But a few things I've gone to check out have given me back as much love as I gave them, usually much more.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Love
  • Interest
  • Check

• I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were heroes, pulling rubble, and I was a new comic trying to go blue just so I could get some laughs.

  

  Chelsea Peretti
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Blue

• You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Vision
  • Leadership

• God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas.

  

  Ralph Hodgson