T. H. White Quotes

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• There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • Great
  • Night
  • Attitude

• To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Want
  • Negative
  • Recognition

• The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Dad

• I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

  

  B. B. King
  • Singer
  • Blues
  • Kept

• We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Fly

• There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

  

  P. D. James
  • Time
  • God
  • Write

• At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • City
  • Present
  • Thousand

• That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Judging
  • Surprise

• Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Enemy
  • Goals

• There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Pretty
  • Nice
  • Thought

• Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Friends

• Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Work
  • Home
  • Forever

• For people to even think that I'd be considered or a good candidate for a supporting actress nomination is mind blowing to me.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Important
  • Children
  • Love

• Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Girl
  • Comedy
  • Winning

• When I think, where did I laugh the most, where did I eat the most, where did I just feel good all the time, I would say making the Bond movie 'Die Another Day.' To be part of such an iconic franchise and to travel to exotic places - that was the most fun I ever had.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Time
  • Good
  • Movie

• I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Me
  • Gay
  • Laugh

• An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

  

  Thomas More
  • Men
  • Ideas
  • Known

• I think that's something that's hard for this country to address, is what the real issues are and coming to the point where we can admit that these are issues. Once we admit that, we can deal with it, we can fix them, and we can make this country and these communities a better place.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Country
  • Real

• I think that idea that sort of our emotional self and our emotional life is a faucet that you turn on and off, and that we are in control of it entirely, that's a really appealing idea for a lot of people. But there are certainly the times where it's appealing to me, but it never quite works the way I hoped it would.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• I remember I was so crabby in my third trimester - I got gestational diabetes because I'd been acting like I was in a one-woman pie-eating contest.

  

  Caroline Rhea
  • Remember

• I leave work by 6:30 P.M. so I can spend some time with the children. Inevitably, we'll end up watching basketball or football. I live in a house of boys, and they're all sports mad, so I don't stand a chance.

  

  Aerin Lauder
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• a king can only work with his best tools.

  

  T. H. White
  • Work
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