Vita Sackville-West Quotes
Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.
Vita Sackville-West
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
Salman Rushdie
Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I think that was added later.
Fay Wray
Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
Natalie Dormer
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
Felicity Jones
I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
Quentin Tarantino
We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
Gary Zukav
I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
Narendra Modi
It's really crazy to be 36 years old and to have been doing something for 25 years.
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.
Ha-Joon Chang
We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.
C. V. Raman
Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival.
Ted Allen
It was much more fun playing with him than against him. If you wanted one pitcher to start the seventh game of the World Series, which he did in 1945, you'd pick Hal Newhouser.
George Kell
Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.
Dee Hock
When we first started, we wanted our music videos to be a part of the whole story, but it was never something that we would think about during the writing of the song. It would always be just getting to work with young, ambitious directors and screenwriters that would want to try something out.
Vinny May Jr.
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"
Eve Merriam
Most of the time, I'm pleased that people don't recognize me. But I don't hate it when they do.
Peter Finch
Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.
Vita Sackville-West
