Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?Thomas Carlyle
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
Samuel Johnson -
Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
Idris Elba -
One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
Floyd Skloot -
Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
Becky G -
When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
A. P. Herbert
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
Jack White The White Stripes -
A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
Ward McAllister -
Playing on the Burj Al Arab helipad was an unforgettable experience, and the view of Dubai was incredible.
Ma Long -
There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
Jack Nicklaus -
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
Barbra Streisand -
I've never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change.
Ian Somerhalder
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Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
Carl Jung -
It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors, and it's all fake, but it's not, because it makes people really feel things that are real.
Samira Wiley -
Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
Napoleon Hill -
I'd make a bad preacher.
Dan Aykroyd -
Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!
Iain Banks -
‘Are you sure?’ I said that sure was just what I wasn’t anything but.
P. G. Wodehouse
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I now walk into the wild.
Christopher McCandless -
I felt very strongly about the Ashley Madison thing. Of the 39 million people who signed up for Ashley Madison, only a tiny percentage of them actually had an affair. And I'd go a step further and say even if they did, it's none of our business, frankly.
Jon Ronson -
Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.
Beck -
Childhood is a promise that is never kept.
Ken Hill -
Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?
Thomas Carlyle