John Constable Quotes

It is so ambiguous as to be scarcely intelligible in some parts (and those the principal), yet as a whole, it is novel and affecting.

John Constable

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• I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Up
  • Good
  • Book

• I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Kind
  • See

• Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Work
  • Love
  • Never

• The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Golf

• Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor - all segments of the city.

  

  Walter Washington
  • People
  • Together
  • City

• It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Lost
  • Better
  • Romantic

• The commercial and subsidised theatre are intrinsically linked. I wouldn't have had the career I have had without the opportunities I had through the subsidised sector. However, I do think, in any walk of life, subsidy for the sake of subsidy is not always healthy.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Life
  • Career
  • Theatre

• Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.

  

  Edmund White
  • Why
  • American
  • America

• I've learned to wait 'til an idea is worth making. That's not really a lesson I've learned; I sort of always did it that way. But there's no reason or need to make videos prior to when you make a show, because then you need material for it.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Wait

• I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Character
  • Help
  • Mother

• In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Education
  • Innovation

• Is power that-an emptiness?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Power

• A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name Great Gorgon, Prince of darknesse and dead night.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Night

• To My Friend John Sylvester, Just a few words reminding you that I have not forgotten my sick little pal. Sorry I couldn’t get out to see you but here’s hoping this little message of cheer finds you well on the road to recovery. I will try to knock you another homer maybe two today. Best regards from your friend and rooter, 'Babe' Ruth.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Today
  • Words
  • Friend

• I would really like to slow down the speed of reading with continual punctuation marks. For I would like to be read slowly. (As I myself read.)

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Reading

• Q: Do you find quite a difference between the audience at large and the critics as a group? A: Well, one is a group of human beings, one is not.

  

  Edward Albee

• In French there is an old expression, 'la patte', meaning the artist's touch, his personal style, his 'paw'. I wanted to get away from la patte and all that retinal painting.

  

  Marcel Duchamp
  • Style
  • Painting

• Look after yourself, get rest, get a facial, get a hair treatment, eat really well, work out, get a personal trainer. And that's really the key: to take care of yourself and not burn out.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Work
  • Rest
  • Hair

• The secret to The Temptations is the music: simple music about a man loving a woman. We talk about the lady when we need her, when we want her to be there; we talk about ain't too proud to beg. It's simple, you know? You can't go wrong.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Proud

• When Denzel [Washington] first called me on the phone after we'd just done a reading of the film ["Fences"]. He said, "Oh Viola it was so good, wasn't it?! I'm gonna tell Russell [Hornsby] to lose a little bit of weight and..." I was just sitting there thinking, why is he calling me? And I told him, "Denzel don't you tell me to lose weight!" He said, "I'm not telling you to lose weight! I can't believe you would say that."

  

  Viola Davis
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Done

• The Gospel is not a religious message to inform mankind of their divinity or to tell them how they may become divine. The Gospel proclaims a God utterly distinct from men.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Men
  • May

• I grew up very much in a sporting background. I always wanted to be an actor, but my escapism always came in sports.

  

  Bradley James
  • Up
  • Sports

• It is so ambiguous as to be scarcely intelligible in some parts (and those the principal), yet as a whole, it is novel and affecting.

  

  John Constable