Jessica Brown Findlay Quotes

I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

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• I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • School
  • Day
  • Positive

• Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Body

• If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Win

• Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

  

  Han Suyin
  • Love
  • Protect
  • Comfort

• Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Nature
  • Facts
  • Human Nature

• Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Think
  • Expression

• The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Work
  • Nature

• Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life

• One thing as a leader - you don't say something to say something. When you actually see something and need to talk to a guy, that's when you say it. It will come naturally.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Guy

• I guess I concentrated exclusively on basketball because of my height. If I was shorter, I don't think I would play.

  

  Anne Donovan
  • Basketball

• People were desperately trying to fill their seats for the summer. And so prices are really low right now. And so they are kept from raising prices to make up for that difference.

  

  David Neeleman
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• I have a golden Lab who goes everywhere with me. He's a great leveler.

  

  Sheryl Crow
  • Great

• Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

  

  Andrew Greeley
  • Life

• You rarely see any blowout games.

  

  Jake Arrieta

• When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Thinking

• At DonorsChoose.org, you can give as little as $1 and get the same level of choice, transparency, and feedback that is traditionally reserved for someone who gives millions. We call it citizen philanthropy.

  

  Charles Best

• When talented, qualified women take on greater responsibility, the simple fact of being talented and qualified is hardly enough to shield them from the gender-specific animosity that will come their way.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • Women
  • Simple
  • Responsibility

• We're not the first people to climb up something or do a backflip during a set, but we want to do something that gets people's attention.

  

  Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
  • People
  • Up
  • Attention

• I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Luck
  • Expectation
  • Calculation

• If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

  

  Gary Busey
  • You
  • Short
  • Take

• A lot of the biking sequences in the beginning, like going down the steps and over the ramp, I of course didn't do any of that stuff. I wish I could have but I didn't.

  

  Alex D. Linz
  • Wish
  • Beginning
  • Stuff

• I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • People
  • Die
  • Mission

• I went to see Chris Rock on Saturday night here in Atlanta, and he made a statement in his comedy. He said, look, when you're the big person, when you're the rich person, poor people can say stuff about you, but it's downright wrong and brutal for rich people to beat up on poor people. He said people who are larger can lampoon people who are skinnier, but not the opposite.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Night
  • Comedy
  • Rich

• I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

  

  Jessica Brown Findlay