E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Quotes

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

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• I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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• I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Up
  • Hate
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• If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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  • Gender
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• Wisdom is a sacred communion.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.

  

  Dalai Lama
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  • Never
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• It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • World
  • Desire
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• I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.

  

  P. N. Elrod
  • Long
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• More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
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  • Wellbeing

• There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Weird

• What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?

  

  Dan Deacon
  • People
  • Music
  • Simple

• When people come up to me and say, 'You made it,' I think, 'But I'm not done yet. Not everyone's heard my music.' I want to be a household name.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
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• Water is my main state. If I time before I run - like, to digest, like, a good hour and a half or so to digest, I'll eat oatmeal. but I'm a vegetarian for the most part, so in general, I just eat grains and vegetables and fruit.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Time
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• I don't see myself in the political realm.

  

  Taya Kyle
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• I love pain. Love pain.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Love
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  • I Love

• I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Criticism
  • Worst
  • Own

• 'Motion', as translated by Eliot Weinberger, in Collected Poems 1957-1987

  

  Octavio Paz

• And I have no desire to get ugly,But I cannot help mentioning that the door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

  

  Ogden Nash
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• All the great utterances of man have to be judged not by the letter but by the spirit - the spirit which unfolds itself with the growth of life in history.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
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• I called my family, saying, 'Guess what? I got a new show. It's about a cop who travels in time.' And they said, 'I think we've seen that one.'

  

  Jason O'Mara
  • Time
  • Family

• Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Good
  • Dating

• Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose entire product line could be eliminated with a giant magnet.

  

  David Shenk
  • History
  • Company
  • Microsoft

• I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.

  

  John Thune
  • Accountability

• A long-term substance abuser, a few months before his death, penned this poem: Went downtown, Hastings and Main, looking for relief from the pain. All I did was find a ticket on a one-way train. ... Give me peace before I die. The track is laid out so well; we all live our private hell; just more tickets on the hell-bound train.

  

  Gabor Mate
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  • Death

• The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax