T. H. White Quotes

I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn

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• The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Remember
  • America
  • Girl

• Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Director
  • Big
  • Platform

• As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Enemy

• It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Long
  • Money
  • Sunset

• It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Live
  • Want
  • Know

• As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Work
  • Control
  • Model

• There's a good lesson for policymakers: It's not the presence of the U.S. that is a problem for many people in the Arab region; it's the type of presence we bring.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • People
  • Good
  • Problem

• If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.'

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Know
  • Enemy
  • Dope

• I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Life
  • Good
  • Album

• English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Believe
  • Science
  • Present

• Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Feelings
  • Marine
  • Marine Corps

• Good movies are what I wait my whole life for.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Life
  • Good
  • Movies

• It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Hollywood film until my late teens.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • America
  • Hollywood
  • Late

• I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Important
  • Wisdom
  • Insecurity

• Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Insecurity
  • Vanity
  • Apply

• When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Free

• Laudem virtutis necessitati damus.

  

  Quintilian

• Nationalism and racism, to take two examples, are the culturally nurtured outgrowths of simple tribalism.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Simple
  • Racism

• I'm not a real person. I'm a legend.

  

  Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Real
  • Legend

• This kid is electric. He overpowered us today. There's no doubt about that. He had everything and threw everything where he wanted to throw it with velocity, with tilt, with sharpness.

  

  Carlos Zambrano
  • Kid
  • Electric
  • Velocity

• In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the

  

  Raoul Vaneigem
  • Century
  • Absence
  • Stealing

• If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • House
  • Library
  • Works

• I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn

  

  T. H. White