Lady Hester Stanhope Quotes

Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

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• Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Time
  • Good
  • Step

• I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.

  

  Kat Graham
  • More
  • Still
  • Brown

• Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • You
  • Never
  • Someone

• We were descended from royalty.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Royalty
  • Were
  • Descended

• The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Sweet
  • Worst
  • Sweets

• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Live
  • High

• There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Good
  • Why
  • Pretty

• There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • World
  • Marriage

• Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Character
  • Right
  • Directors

• I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Life
  • Doing
  • My Life

• I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Think

• As long as you believe in Him, no matter what happens in your life, understand that it's all for a purpose.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Long

• The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Brain
  • Sometimes
  • Creative

• I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Head
  • Lion
  • Mouse

• I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Artist

• I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.

  

  Kate Baldwin
  • Women
  • Spirit
  • Adventure

• I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Think
  • Me
  • Play

• To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Change

• You'll change inside when you realize The world comes to life and everything's bright From beginning to end when you have a friend by your side.

  

  Demi Lovato
  • Life
  • World
  • Friend

• When you're little all the things that are quirky and weird about you and that people laugh at, you find out are the things that are going to get you through

  

  Macy Gray
  • People
  • Weird

• I have two grandchildren: Maggie is 11; Robert is 9. I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they're my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Time
  • Country
  • American

• One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Words

• Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Character
  • Kind
  • Crazy

• Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

  

  Lady Hester Stanhope
  • Nature