Francis Marion Crawford Quotes

Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.

Francis Marion Crawford

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• I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Good
  • You
  • Wine

• Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Voice
  • Going
  • Ice

• Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • World
  • Real
  • Art

• Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Sometimes
  • Eye
  • Forget

• It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Mortal
  • Despairing

• I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.

  

  B. B. King
  • Want
  • House
  • Parents

• If the light is right, you can squint at the Taj and see the specter of its black twin on the other side of the Yamuna - and it is then that you truly marvel not just at the Taj, but at the wonder of what might have been.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Black
  • Light
  • Wonder

• A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Effort

• I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.

  

  Larry Wall

• We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Earth
  • Peace

• There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Good
  • Art
  • Enemy

• Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.

  

  John Adams
  • People
  • Mind
  • Education

• You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn't do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most people.

  

  Prince Andrew
  • People
  • Live
  • She

• I love technology. I love trying to tell stories in new ways using technology.

  

  Chris Milk
  • Trying
  • Technology

• Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.

  

  Leroy Hood

• I am behind Kanye West for American President 100 per cent.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • American

• I interviewed dozens and dozens of African women who had endured more hardship and trauma than most Westerners even read about, and they ploughed on. I often openly cried during interviews, unable to process this violence and hatred towards women I was witnessing.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • Women
  • Violence

• One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.

  

  Kathy Acker
  • Country
  • Power

• It's very hard to not give in, to sell your soul: to flatter a more experienced male person of power, a producer or director, in order to get what you want. You feel a pressure to flutter your eyelashes and flirt because you know that will work, and I think it's admirable to not do that.

  

  Ella Purnell
  • Work
  • Power
  • Soul

• I received an impassioned letter from Sonoko. There was no doubt that she was truly in love. I felt jealous. Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • World
  • She
  • Doubt

• If you have passion for what you do, the company you keep, the life you live, it will be reflected in whatever you create. Passion is like that; it springs out, jumps, unpredictable and unplanned, into everything we touch. If it doesn't, others know. Passion can't be faked and it can't be manufactured. Which is why it is so priceless.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Life
  • Live
  • Why

• Lo pianto stesso lì pianger non lascia,e 'l duol che truova in su li occhi rintoppo,si volge in entro a far crescer l'ambascia.

  

  Dante Alighieri

• Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.

  

  Francis Marion Crawford
  • Jealousy
  • Forerunners