Nancy Astor Quotes

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Nancy Astor

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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

Vera Wang
- Women
- Book
- Creativity
The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

Damien Rice
- Good
- Work
- Running
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

Karl Kraus
- Opportunity
- Democracy
In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.

Zadie Smith
- People
- Up
- Time
You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.

Malcolm McDowell
- Up
- Think
- Fall
I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.

Orlando Bloom
- Think
- Environment
- Easy