Victor Borge Quotes

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

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• When we step out in faith and use the talents He's given us, we show that we trust God, that we believe He will bless our actions and cause us to succeed.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• I'm regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They're the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.

  

  Imran Amed
  • School
  • Business
  • Fashion

• I'm a couch potato. I love to stay in and just watch a DVD with the missus. Or we all go over to Louis's house and watch 'X Factor.'

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Love
  • House
  • Just

• Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Long
  • Being
  • Run

• If you think about what folks have been doing for 20 or 30 years, they have been bottling frustration and resentment that the political elites don't understand them, that the political elites don't care about them, that the political elites judge them in various ways. All Donald Trump does is provide the opposite of those things.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Political
  • Care
  • Judge

• Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Model
  • London
  • Suburbs

• I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Up
  • Children

• When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • You
  • Commitment
  • Honesty

• Just as China achieved much more than India in the realm of public health and education under an austere Communist regime, so its economic growth under a capitalist-friendly government strikes a visitor from India as nothing less than spectacular.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Education
  • Health
  • Growth

• If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Justice

• I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I think very few people do find a relationship where, every moment of every day, everything they do comes together. That's why, in a nutshell, everyone loved Barbara in 'The Good Life.' She was the perfect partner. It was a formula. She wasn't glamorous. She wasn't clever. But she was a good partner. That's too easy, too perfect.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.

  

  Pam Grier
  • You
  • Everything
  • Top

• Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Effort

• Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Nature
  • Patience
  • Trees

• I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Knowledge
  • Belief
  • Order

• I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Think
  • Guitar
  • Touch

• Buddy Holly was the geekiest looking guy in the world, but he had some really rockin tunes.

  

  Chris Chaney Jane's Addiction
  • Guy
  • Had
  • Buddy Holly

• I had never heard Ellery laugh before, not out loud. I loved the sound, it filled me up. It tinkled like a magic bird.

  

  Ursula Dubosarsky
  • Up
  • Never
  • Magic

• But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Sex
  • Difference

• For a lifetime I had bathed with becoming regularity, and thought the world would come to an end unless I changed my socks every day. But in Africa I sometimes went without a bath for two months, and I went two weeks at a time without even changing my socks. Oddly enough, it didn't seem to make much difference.

  

  Ernie Pyle
  • Difference
  • Changed
  • Regularity

• The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Difference
  • VIolin
  • Viola