Ian Hamilton Finlay Quotes
Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
Quotes to Explore
-
When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
-
My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
-
The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
-
For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
-
Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.
-
The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
-
Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
-
I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
-
I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
-
Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
-
When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
-
I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.
-
It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
-
Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
-
For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
-
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
-
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
-
The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
-
I love story songs because I've always loved books.
-
The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.
-
I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.
-
Dying's a boring side effect.
-
If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?
-
Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
