Oliver D. Crisp Quotes

We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.

Oliver D. Crisp

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• When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Love
  • True
  • Honor

• Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Heart
  • American
  • Guy

• Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Business
  • Silence
  • Bird

• I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Hair
  • Struggle
  • Constant

• A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

  

  Man Ray
  • Needs
  • Him
  • Creator

• As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Security
  • Own

• What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • America
  • Best
  • Failure

• Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Anger

• Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Work
  • Look
  • Well

• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • See
  • Surprise
  • Awards

• The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Experience
  • Proud
  • Discipline

• Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Women
  • Fashion

• Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Work
  • Easy
  • Hard Work

• It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Work
  • Ultimate

• I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • History
  • Never
  • Dramatic

• My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Hope
  • Daughter
  • Idea

• As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Good
  • American
  • Taken

• I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting. The more different they are, the bigger the challenge.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness;

  

  George Eliot
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending – sweet or sour – and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Done
  • Needs
  • Sweet

• I don't believe in a God. I don't believe in any of that stuff to determine my life or my goals or my direction. I just depend on myself.

  

  Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
  • Believe
  • Goal
  • Determine

• And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Important
  • Political
  • Balance

• We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Tradition