George Herbert Quotes

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

George Herbert

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• It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Happy

• If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Power
  • Free
  • Blind

• I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Live
  • Respect

• Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Situation
  • Saying

• As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.

  

  Tabare Vazquez
  • Me
  • Politics
  • Medicine

• When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Business
  • Movie
  • You

• Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?

  

  Ira Glass
  • Fun
  • Point
  • Hotel

• I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Work
  • Me
  • Shape

• I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Trying
  • Lost
  • Find

• I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Learn
  • Write
  • Newspaper

• 'Tristan' is a very unique case, not just in Wagner's output, but in music in general. It remains contemporary no matter what else surrounds it. There is something self-renewing about it.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Unique
  • Matter

• The supporting powers of time air and of the wind depend on the shape of the surfaces used, and the best forms can only be evolved by free flight through the air.

  

  Otto Lilienthal
  • Time
  • Free
  • Air

• A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Truth
  • Picture

• Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable. The End.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late... The science is clear. The global warming debate is over.

  

  Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Power
  • Science

• I think to look in the future, to plan another one, it's not realistic right now. But I don't close any doors. I'm very open for what comes up. At the moment, we are so happy with this one. I really hope people will like it as much as we do.

  

  Agnetha Fältskog
  • People
  • Up
  • Happy

• Language is one of the only things that we truly share, and I sometimes used this joint inheritance to obfuscate and deflect and justify myself: to re-brand what was good for me as something appearing good for us both, when I threw around terms like 'the sharing economy' and 'disruption' and 'global resourcing.'

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Good

• I was a workaholic, I had food issues, and I had body issues. I was in a lot of pain. My parents didn't recognise what was going on.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Parents
  • Food
  • Pain

• Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Nature
  • Diversity

• Little miss is taught by her mamma that she must never speak before she is spoken to. On this she sits bridling up her head, looking from one to the other, in hopes of being called to and addressed by the name of pretty miss.... But if this should not happen and no one should take any notice of her, she is ready to cry at the neglect. But should there be another miss in the room caressed and taken notice of whilst she is thus overlooked, it will be impossible for her to contain her tears, and blubbering is the word.

  

  Sarah Fielding
  • Education
  • Taken
  • Childhood

• When 'Supernatural' came out, there were a lot of procedurals and you were either a doctor or a cop or lawyer, otherwise the show didn't stay on TV. And then we came around, and I don't want to say we were trailblazers, but we found our niche.

  

  Jared Padalecki
  • Lawyer
  • Supernatural

• Over time even two armed blind men in a room can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Blind men
  • Damage

• He hath no leisure who useth it not.

  

  George Herbert