John Aubrey Quotes

How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe.

John Aubrey

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• I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.

  

  Halima Aden
  • School
  • Like
  • Speak

• A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • You
  • Artist
  • Yourself

• The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Great
  • American
  • Single

• Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Children
  • Community
  • Health

• When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Sometimes
  • Fans
  • Ugly

• We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Guidance
  • Professor

• With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Good
  • Children
  • Help

• Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Father

• I don't want to do only blockbusters.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Want
  • Only
  • Blockbusters

• I've been engaged a couple times.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Couple
  • Been
  • Engaged

• I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Money
  • Always
  • Film

• Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Up
  • Never
  • Down

• I'm always preparing for a regular life.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Life
  • Always
  • Regular

• The only possible solution which will preserve Germany’s honor and Germany’s interest is, we repeat, a war with Russia.

  

  Karl Marx
  • War
  • Honor

• Who believes in Aslan nowadays?

  

  C. S. Lewis

• Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • Sun

• There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles.

  

  Anne Bancroft
  • Good
  • Work
  • May

• When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow - you are not understanding yourself.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Freedom
  • Understanding
  • Shadow

• To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

  

  Marquis de Sade
  • God
  • Men
  • Judge

• My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender.... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man will endanger his soul, and commit robbery and murder for a very stout lady's sake.

  

  Maria Jeritza
  • Believe
  • Chance
  • Slender

• Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This wasn't always so. Up until the 1980s most teams in all divisions had a couple of fat ones, a couple of little ones, at least one bandy one, one completely covered in hair, two weaklings and a chap with no neck. This was an era when you didn't need names on the backs of shirts in order to tell who's who, you could clearly identify them with your eyes half shut from the other side of the pitch.

  

  Danny Baker
  • Fashion
  • Football
  • Couple

• Hugo Boss is my kind of label.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Kind
  • Boss
  • Hugo

• How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe.

  

  John Aubrey