Ernest Dimnet Quotes

The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.

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• I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Night
  • City
  • Lights

• By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Change
  • Target
  • Unions

• I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Important
  • Success
  • Past

• I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Trying
  • Hope

• Let me just worry about me. I'm not worried about anyone else. If you're doing fine, great; if you're struggling, I hope things get better for you. But I've got to be worried about my career.

  

  LaToya London
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Career

• For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • School
  • High
  • Death

• I learned a lot just watching people perform.

  

  Bill Hader
  • People

• I've become very aware of body issues and body confidence.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • Confidence

• You can get fake fur, which, if that's what you want - if you want that fur look - it looks just the same. It's really unnecessary to skin an animal when you can get something that looks just the same without hurting anything.

  

  Christian Serratos
  • Animal
  • Fake

• Even more than results, it matters that the players give everything for their shirt, and if they do that whether they're relegated or not, the fans are ready to applaud.

  

  Antonio Conte

• The show is different every night, because I never write a setlist.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Different
  • Night

• I think I'd have to say my favorite IWC. They have been around for so long and the craftsmanship is top notch. A watch maker that has been in business over 100 years has to know what they are doing.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • Long
  • Business

• There is no law that says a campaign cannot accept information from a foreign government.

  

  Jeanine Pirro
  • Law

• Black music is too big and too powerful not to have its own awards show.

  

  Don Cornelius
  • Music
  • Black
  • Powerful

• 'Rent' opened up my heart, my senses. I was never the same. I hadn't been back in that place in the same way since. 'Hamilton' put me back in that place.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Up
  • Heart

• I promise you, every insurgent, freedom fighter, and stray gunman in Iraq who we arrested knew the ropes, knew that the way out was to announce he had been tortured by the Americans, ill treated, or prevented from reading the Koran or eating his breakfast or watching the television.

  

  Marcus Luttrell
  • Freedom
  • Reading
  • Promise

• I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life.

  

  Lenny Kravitz
  • Life
  • Music
  • Long

• It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place.

  

  Marya Hornbacher
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Interesting

• There are memories I a better off without. Things better lost forever.

  

  S. J. Watson
  • Lost
  • Forever
  • Memories

• I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Good
  • You
  • Dog

• I get up, go out, and everything is changed. The blood drains from my head, the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Up
  • Different
  • Eyes

• We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Search

• The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.

  

  Ernest Dimnet
  • Search
  • Reflection
  • Discovery