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
  • Drama
  • Artists
  • Dramatic

• I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• 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
  • End

• If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Unique
  • Gender
  • Spectrum

• Wisdom is a sacred communion.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Wisdom
  • Sacred
  • Communion

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

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Dream
  • Never
  • Dalai Lama

• It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • World
  • Desire
  • Beauty

• 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
  • Done
  • Day

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

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Happiness
  • 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
  • Up
  • Music

• 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
  • Good
  • Water

• I don't see myself in the political realm.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Political
  • Myself
  • See

• As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• I love pain. Love pain.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Love
  • Pain
  • 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

• I'm a huge James Bond fan and watched the movies growing up.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Movies

• Pete's my best friend, I was the best man at his wedding, I love that man to death. I'd take a bullet for him.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Death
  • Friend
  • Wedding

• 中國人的性情是總喜歡調和折中的，譬如你說，這屋子太暗，須在這裏開一個窗，大家一定不允許的。但如果你主張拆掉屋頂他們就來調和，願意開窗了。

  

  Lu Xun

• Now, long before it came to the final reckoning, to payment of promise implied, she began to set the stage for the great renunciation. “Let’s not spoil it,” she would say, caressing the man’s lapels with long silken fingers. “Let’s not spoil what we have . . .

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Fingers
  • Payment
  • Renunciation

• When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Lost
  • Alone
  • Found

• When the governing representatives of the people legalize the shedding of innocent blood (as a for-profit business, nonetheless) then they have placed themselves, and those they represent, in the direct line of God's judgment.

  

  Tony Evans
  • Blood
  • Innocent
  • Judgment

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

  

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