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

• I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise people. And that's where the good humor is, if there's a surprise and there's something unexpected. Something that's not normal, not in the realm of general living expectations.

  

  Bill Plympton
  • People
  • Good
  • Responsibility

• And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Work
  • Art
  • Myself

• Perhaps, The man-hero is not the exceptional monster, But he that of repetition is most master.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Hero
  • Monster

• Before the Berlin Wall came down, we played behind the Iron Curtain and sang, 'Born in the U.S.A.,' and I thought, 'We're all going to die. The man is going to get us all killed.' But then you saw all these kids with the American flag and German flags together and singing the song, and it was, wow, like 'We Shall Overcome.'

  

  Clarence Clemons
  • Kids
  • American
  • Together

• They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Year
  • My Mind
  • Copy

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

  

  John Aubrey