Rudyard Kipling Quotes

There's no jealousy in the grave.

Rudyard Kipling

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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

• I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Up
  • Gold
  • Born

• Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Work
  • Done
  • Boring

• 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

• 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

• The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Important
  • Long
  • Family

• 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

• 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

• When it comes to beach volleyball, we're playing in 100-degree-plus weather.

  

  Kerri Walsh Jennings
  • Beach
  • Volleyball

• Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

  

  William James
  • Emotional
  • Emotion
  • Guilt

• What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Soul
  • Living
  • Grave

• The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • Work
  • Energy

• Bullies - political bullies, economic bullies, and religious bullies - cannot be appeased; they have to be opposed with courage, clarity, and conviction. This is never easy. These true believers don't fight fair. Robert's Rules of Order is not one of their holy texts.

  

  Bill Moyers
  • True
  • Political
  • Religious

• I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Sleep
  • Pajamas
  • Nightgowns

• There's no jealousy in the grave.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Jealousy
  • Grave