Ernest Dimnet Quotes

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

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• I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Me
  • City
  • Write

• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Years
  • Evidence
  • Over

• To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Children
  • May
  • Age

• I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Attitude
  • Creative
  • Haircut

• You can't hire someone to practice for you.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Practice
  • Someone

• You can't escape from what you are.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • You
  • Escape

• One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Party
  • California

• Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectual abilities, encouraged her to go abroad by herself to obtain a Ph.D.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Man

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• I have been traveling to every corner of the great state of Florida. I've met some great people and we've had an honest discussion about the failures of Washington.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • People
  • Great
  • Great People

• All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Value
  • Things
  • Human

• Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • May
  • True
  • High

• But don't worry... only yours is right.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Worry

• I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Memories

• Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived.

  

  Elton John
  • World

• Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

  

  Aeschylus
  • Done

• So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• My prom dress was very sweet, very puffy, but I also wore little stiletto, pointed-toe heels, nylon hosiery, the whole nine yards.

  

  Betsey Johnson
  • Sweet
  • Prom

• The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love.

  

  Paul Eluard
  • Love
  • Language
  • Body

• Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People

• Everywhere we turn, we see violence and hate and prejudice and anger and all of these negative emotions that are destroying humanity. And we have to wake up and take note of this and try to change our course, so that we can create a world of peace and harmony where future generations can live happily together.

  

  Arun Manilal Gandhi
  • Future
  • Change
  • Generations

• Now in these troubled times, even more than ever, we need an affirmation that there is goodness and beauty in the world.

  

  Bob Benson
  • Beauty
  • Goodness
  • Affirmation

• Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

  

  Ernest Dimnet
  • Soul
  • Architecture
  • Arts