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

• 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
  • Change
  • Light

• 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

• I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • War
  • Movies
  • Example

• Actors are such wonderful creatures and such wonderful instruments. It's always different on the page or in my head. I hear it differently. I see it differently. And then, you give it to an actor, and it comes alive in a way that you didn't expect.

  

  Kelly Masterson
  • Different

• The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

  

  Mary Catherine Bateson
  • Death

• I like characters and stories that challenge the status quo. Lately, I'm really interested in history because I find that in my public school education, I didn't learn about women in history. I want to introduce the world to some great stories and incredible heroes.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• It's 14 years since I left the club and that first-half performance was the worst I've seen since. It was devoid of quality, devoid of ideas, and worst of all, devoid of fight.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • Quality
  • Performance
  • Since

• When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Interests
  • Govern

• 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