Andrew Cecil Bradley Quotes

Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult.

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• I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Road

• God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • God
  • Like
  • Sun

• The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Myself
  • Positive
  • Yourself

• Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Creativity

• Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Age
  • Now
  • Jazz

• One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Why
  • Never
  • German

• If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Fiction

• I've only dressed in drag three or four times.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Times
  • Three
  • Dressed

• Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

  

  Ted Olson
  • Way
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Water
  • Same
  • Beer

• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • God
  • Change

• It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Beginning
  • New
  • Trends

• Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Song
  • Nice
  • Lies

• Everything I say is true.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • True
  • Everything
  • Say

• There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Life
  • Work
  • You

• We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Great
  • Dreams

• An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

• Music is the perfect type of art.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Music
  • Art
  • Perfect

• The reason he liked attending rich patients rather than poor ones was the he could exercise his active imagination in prescribing for their ailments.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Imagination
  • Exercise

• A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls. When we nap, we are resting our eyes while our imaginations soar. Getting ready for the next round. Sorting, sifting, separating the profound from the profane, the possible from the improbable. Rehearsing our acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, our surprise on receiving the MacArthur genius award. This requires a prone position. If we're lucky, we might drift off, but we won't drift far. Just far enough to ransom our creativity from chaos.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Soul
  • Imagination
  • Sleep

• I feel like I have big thighs. My brother was always like, 'Yeah, I want big thighs! Big thighs are awesome!' And I'm like, 'Yeah, for a man!' But I've trained since I was 6 years old to play soccer, and this is just the type of body I have.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • Brother
  • Awesome
  • Soccer

• Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult.

  

  Andrew Cecil Bradley
  • Imagination