Thomas Carlyle Quotes

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

Thomas Carlyle

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• I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.

  

  Carla Bley
  • World
  • Best
  • End

• I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Enemy
  • Negro
  • Laboring Class

• The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Power
  • Never
  • Twitter

• Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Now
  • Africa
  • Cyber

• It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Up
  • Important
  • Strong

• Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • World
  • Reading

• Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Environment
  • Better
  • More

• I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Bad
  • Light
  • Change

• Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.

  

  Ice T
  • Value
  • Looking
  • Shock

• I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • People
  • Love
  • Boy

• Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Book
  • Fun
  • Energy

• Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Space

• To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Miracle
  • Entertainment

• When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Single

• I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Music
  • Person
  • Spiritually

• They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Eyes
  • Better
  • Order

• There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.

  

  Jeff Greenfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• If I was 14 or 15 again, I would do the same thing. I've done everything. I think I've accomplished more than I had in mind.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Think

• From analog film cameras to digital cameras to iPhone cameras, it has become progressively easier to take and store photographs. Today, we don't even think twice about snapping a shot.

  

  Om Malik
  • Today

• Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Success

• You all know my commitment to the National Health Service. While I am Secretary of State, the NHS will never be fragmented, privatised or undermined. I am personally committed to an NHS which gives equal access, and excellent care.

  

  Andrew Lansley
  • Health
  • Service
  • Commitment

• History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • History
  • Theatre
  • Eternity