Ernest Bramah Quotes

He who has failed three times sets up as an instructor.

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• When you expand your ability to see, you understand that there are a lot of false choices being offered.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Choices

• SARS was a very important event... And many countries have learned from SARS... The SARS event sort of gave them additional impetus and the sense of urgency for them to really revise the International Health Regulations.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Important
  • Health
  • Countries

• I think, for me specifically when it comes to music, I don't think that I need any persuading to think about it. It's always kind of in the back of your mind and - but I think it's part of who I am and always will be, I mean, in a very cellular way. When you grow up doing, you know, one thing, I think you get to this place where you want to try new things. And I do think that we live in the type of world where people get comfortable with you in one way, and so seeing you in a different way, it takes some time.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Sometimes
  • Embarrassed

• If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Water
  • Enough

• I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Thinking
  • Night
  • inspirational

• Every era that comes along has a superstar that emerges. Once we are out of the game, there will be a superstar who will emerge that everyone will notice.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • ERA
  • Superstar
  • Emerges

• The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a gift for judgment. If you have it, you can say anything you like. If you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it.

  

  Virgil Thomson
  • Judgment
  • Explanation
  • Description

• The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Life
  • Strange
  • Accounts

• You'd have to be kind of a bonehead not to feel pressure.

  

  Caroline Polachek Chairlift
  • Pressure

• I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Words
  • Story
  • Pictures

• No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold.

  

  Betsy Lerner
  • Book
  • Future
  • Compromises

• I also remember when I watched Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1990 at, like, age 15. That scared the crap out of me. Because it didn't operate inside the usual conventions of the horror genre in the way that I could accept. I can accept horny teenager counselors being murdered at camp. But I couldn't accept the derangement of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, which was that anyone could be murdered at any moment - whole families, with no build-up music and no meaning. It terrified me.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Moments

• Sticking to my schedule, Ive gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a Pearls Before Swine movie script for the big screen.

  

  Stephan Pastis
  • Write
  • Screen
  • Script

• The Undertaker stood up for what was right. He earned everything he got.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Right
  • Earned
  • Stood Up

• It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Feeling

• People say, 'I failed out of college! My life is over!' Well, it's not over. It depends on what you do with it.

  

  Rainer Weiss
  • People
  • College
  • Depends

• I've always had it inside - this ability to read people, how to get into someone else's head and help them with their problems. And I love when people trust me with their feelings and I can get into any kind of dialogue with them about their inner stuff. I think it's the thing I enjoy most besides modeling.

  

  Vittoria Ceretti
  • People
  • Trust
  • Ability

• He who has failed three times sets up as an instructor.

  

  Ernest Bramah
  • Failed
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