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

• You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care.

  

  Corrine Brown
  • Health

• I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom's encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that. Also, when I saw 'The Sound of Music' at Music Circus, I knew I wanted to act.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Music
  • Mom
  • Thanksgiving

• I never felt that I had the natural intellectual gifts that the people who graduate first in their class from Harvard Law had.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • People
  • Law

• I have committed to contribute in raising general public awareness, as well as inspiring broad, positive, committed action against illegal trade. It is an on-going and tough fight, but I believe that if we all join our hands, we can conquer!

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Believe
  • Action
  • Positive

• Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.

  

  William James
  • Book
  • Eye
  • Philosophy

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

  

  T. H. White