Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

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• All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • World
  • Education
  • Best

• I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Think
  • Responsibility

• It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • World
  • Live
  • Example

• Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Society
  • Never
  • New

• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Growth
  • Ambition
  • Proceeds

• I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Boy
  • Being
  • Franchise

• His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

  

  Mae West
  • Mother
  • Should
  • Him

• Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • School
  • Truth
  • Political

• TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Different
  • You
  • Film

• We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That's the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Today
  • Process

• My children are grown now, they are more independent.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Children
  • Independent
  • Now

• I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Work
  • Music
  • Together

• 'Oh, son, I wish you hadn’t become a scenario writer!' she sniffled.'Aw, now, Moms,' I comforted her, 'it’s no worse than playing the piano in a call house.'

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Son
  • Playing
  • Piano

• No prisoner's dilemma here. Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Long
  • Fun

• Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Influence
  • Reasons
  • Effect

• I grew up with nothing, and I know that I don't need anything to be happy. We were wearing second-hand clothing and eating leftovers, and I was so happy. Five-star hotels and private pick-ups hasn't changed that.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Hand

• I might be one of the most flamboyant characters New Zealand has ever seen, but my intentions are good, and I would like to see New Zealand flourish.

  

  Kim Dotcom
  • Good

• Give light and people will find the way.

  

  Ella Baker
  • People
  • Light

• Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • People
  • Travel
  • Transformation

• Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

  

  Alfred Jarry
  • Laughter
  • Discovery
  • Contradictory

• These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Time
  • Live
  • Depression

• Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Sassy
  • Harlots

• Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Summer
  • Spring
  • Chilling