Sydney Smith Quotes
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, whatever that takes. For me, above all else, it means being around the people I want to be with.
Naomi Watts -
I received an impassioned letter from Sonoko. There was no doubt that she was truly in love. I felt jealous. Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?
Yukio Mishima -
Even working from nature you have to compose.
Edgar Degas -
A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay,A cap by night — a stocking all the day!
Oliver Goldsmith -
Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.
Laurell K. Hamilton
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I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.
Jeff Bridges -
No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.
Kevin Mitnick -
The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.
Daniel Kahneman -
We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes.
John Keegan -
Great horror movies are earned. 'Halloween' is an earned picture. Every moment of grotesque violence is earned by the suspense they're able to maintain getting there.
John Carroll Lynch -
What hope has any endeavor which is based on hate and fear?
David Brin
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One of my grandfathers was a blacksmith, and all the plumbers and carpenters and electricians, people who did things with their hands, thought of themselves as artists because they were good at doing things. They were proud of their making things.
Kenneth Noland -
Philosophy's error is to be too endurable.
Emil Cioran -
Victi vicimus
Plautus -
We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way - not at all or in an interesting manner.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Skinny jeans are usually my go to jean. I do bootleg every once in a while, boyfriend jeans I feel like are so hard to pull off! Skinny jeans are very easy and you can kind of pair anything with them and it will work: heels and boots or nice top or flouncy top.
Ashley Greene -
The thing is, Jesus died for us so we should be able to die for Him. It is an important question to ask yourself.
Sadie Robertson
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There are two kinds of experts: academic experts and practical experts. One is not better than the other, but they are very different, and each offers very different value.
Simon Sinek -
For his was now the loveliest partOf the young poet's life, when first,In solitude and silence nurst,His genius rises like a springUnnoticed in its wandering;Ere winter cloud or summer rayHave chill'd, or wasted it away,
Letitia Elizabeth Landon -
I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude - a feeling which increases with the years.
Albert Einstein -
I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.
Jeff Lindsay -
Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.
Billy Campbell -
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
Sydney Smith