Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

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• A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.

  

  Dan Gelber
  • School
  • True
  • Strong

• My greatest regret is selling my company.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Company
  • Regret
  • Greatest

• I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Responsibility
  • Model
  • Decisions

• Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn't think about 'Harry Potter' when I wrote 'The Bone Season.'

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Love
  • She

• Working with Adrien Brody was like going to Julliard, but instead of four years, I went for four weeks. He was like the Albert Einstein of professors, it was just the best experience of my life. Adrien was the most influential mentor in my acting career thus far, and even after the movie he continues to mentor me.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Movie

• I decided to start acting in my mid-twenties. I studied pre-med, and I have a bachelor's degree in Biology, so when I decided to pursue a different career, I got a lot of, 'What on earth are you doing?' But, I gave myself a year and thought, 'You know what, I'm going to just beat the odds.'

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Different
  • Career
  • Earth

• There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Question
  • Problems
  • Blind

• Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Perfection

• The Bible has been through millions of rounds of exegesis and interpretation, but it hasn't been until quite recently that it's been taken as the absolute truth, to the point where people expect it to inform ideas about biology and life on this planet.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• There is no link between the terror attacks of Daesh and the dress of a woman on the beach.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Woman
  • Beach
  • Dress

• You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Feel

• Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • World
  • You
  • Nothing

• If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • Good
  • Better
  • Committee

• Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.

  

  Edmund White
  • Why
  • American
  • America

• There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Death
  • Suffering
  • Moral

• A single element in transactional mode can never be analysed to calculate either loss or presumptive loss. The losses or gains of all elements in the transaction need to be analysed.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Single
  • Need
  • Loss

• For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is not a problem anymore. And it's through the technology that underlies bitcoin. It's called the block chain.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Time
  • History
  • Technology

• As a formal analytical point of reference, primacy of orientation to the attainment of a specific goal is used as the defining characteristic of an organization which distinguishes it from other types of social systems.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Organization

• I don't want to be typecast as the 'ambient guy' or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most of the work that comes my way is because people feel they know me musically.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • People
  • Work
  • Guy

• If you don't have a basis on which to make the choice, then you don't have a style at all. You have a series of accidents.

  

  Philip Glass
  • Style
  • Choice
  • Basis

• There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Mood
  • Weather
  • Fog

• Health information is just about the number one thing that people go into public libraries and connect to public libraries for. They're also looking for information about things that can make their lives better. It's a great equalizer.

  

  Carla Hayden
  • Information
  • Library
  • Numbers

• The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome