Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .

Rudyard Kipling

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• I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Things
  • See
  • Word

• You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Done
  • Understand
  • Appreciate

• The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Experience
  • Suffering
  • Perspective

• That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Mother
  • Special
  • Gift

• I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Interested

• I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Character
  • Remember
  • Respect

• I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Respect
  • Me

• I think they could of recast the children, I heard of people wanting to do something like that. That would be a nice little show to do but you know that show was of the 80's, I don't think the audience mind set is in that direction any longer.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • Mind
  • Children

• We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right?

  

  Laura Moser
  • School
  • Kids
  • Right

• There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core.

  

  Randy Hultgren
  • Good
  • Common
  • Core

• I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Reality
  • Landscape

• I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Thought
  • Page

• Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Respect
  • City

• If you err it is not for me to punish you. We are punished by our sins not for them.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

• Camel caravans bear witness guns to Caesar. Hordes crawl and seep inside the walls. The streets flow stone. Life goes on absorbing war. Violence kills the temple of no sex.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Life
  • War
  • Violence

• The face, which, duly as the sun, Rose up for me with life begun, To mark all bright hours of the day With hourly love, is dimmed away - And yet my days go on, go on.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Life
  • Up
  • Sun

• It is very conceivable, that the labor of man alone laid out upon a work, requiring great skill and art to bring it to perfection, may be more productive, in value, than the labour of nature and man combined, when directed towards more simple operations and objects

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Work
  • Great
  • Art

• I'm going to build an empire. I'm always writing for someone else. I want to be someone who has her fingerprints all over the pop charts.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Writing

• The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Saying

• I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.

  

  Alfred Kastler
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Wall

• I think music will be created algorhythmically, all the things that we do will be boiled down to a little computer program.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Music

• As soon as you hear a proposition, the creative brain in humans assumes for the moment that it's true, and starts trying to find evidence. It's what computer scientists in the old days used to call 'Fifo:' first in, first out. The first piece of information that gets in has a privileged position, even if it's misinformation.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Trying
  • True
  • Brain

• Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Brain
  • Paralyze
  • Egotize