John Constable Quotes

Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her I look for fame.

John Constable

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• I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Die
  • Never
  • Seen

• Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Food

• I want to fuse the abrasive and the beautiful.

  

  Flume
  • Want
  • Beautiful
  • Fuse

• When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced!

  

  Illinois Jacquet
  • Believe
  • Band
  • Greatest

• I left New York in 2009 when I fell in love with someone who had a farmhouse in New Hampshire... Portland, Maine, felt like the inevitable place for us.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Love
  • Place
  • New York

• We live in a flat; my wife would be happy if we had a house with stairs. Or a little cottage in the country.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Live
  • Country
  • Happy

• My favorite stories are about kids who refuse to give up; their homes and schools may have been destroyed; they've probably had to rely on themselves more than a lot of adults do, and they've resisted the many bad alternatives that city life offers to poor teens.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Life
  • Up
  • May

• The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Government
  • Moral
  • Oppression

• A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Stretch

• Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • President
  • Welcome
  • Bush

• With increased awareness should come greater caution about how confessions are used at trial - and a greater willingness to overturn convictions when it becomes clear that a confession was untrue.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Awareness
  • Caution

• I love coming to Las Vegas. I've always loved it and always had a good time.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Time
  • Good
  • Always

• The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Limits

• In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Family
  • Truth
  • Friends

• O, human love! thou spirit given,On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven!

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Hope
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• Romanticism, like the Rousseauist Swinging Sixties, misunderstands the Dionysian as the pleasure principle, when it is in fact the gross continuum of pleasure-pain. Worshiping nature and seeking political and sexual freedom, Romanticism ends in imaginative entrammelment of every kind. Perfect freedom is intolerable and therefore impossible.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Political
  • Freedom

• Getting up at odd hours to catch flights. I hate the long hours of waiting. There are times when one is continuously travelling, from one city to another, hopping from one studio to another or changing from one costume to another. It is annoying, but after a point, one learns to be immune to one’s surroundings.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Up
  • Long
  • Hate

• I should therefore prefer to restrict my guidelines to the following:

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least five or six that died on the way. And even with the ones I do finish, I think of all the ways they might have been better.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Work
  • Failure
  • Shadow

• Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Happiness
  • Behavior
  • Connected

• Now, I've gotten to the point in my career, I'm 13 years in, to where I know that I'm funny. I know that I'm good at this.

  

  Brad Williams
  • Good
  • Career
  • Funny

• When someone sends you an email, they are knocking on your door. And when you open the attachment, without looking through the peephole to see who it is, you just opened the door and let a stranger into your life, where everything you care about is.

  

  James Comey
  • Life
  • Door

• Back then, as a kid, you made a choice of who you liked, and it was either us or 'Take That.' And if you liked 'East 17', it showed you knew what was going on, you were clued up, had better taste in music.

  

  Brian Harvey
  • Up
  • Music

• Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her I look for fame.

  

  John Constable