Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.

Thomas Carlyle

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• I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Work
  • Movie

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Really

• Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Knowledge
  • Me
  • Training

• Michael Kitchen was a great person to work with. So attentive and just great at what he does and supportive, also.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Work
  • Great
  • Kitchen

• A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Up
  • Success

• It is not altogether shyness that now makes me unsuccessful in company. Sometimes it is a state of mind that is three parts meditation, that will not free the thoughts until their attendant trains are prepared to follow them.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Thoughts

• There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Different
  • Giving
  • Energy

• Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren't allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Good
  • Training
  • Golf

• You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It's the same thing with filmmaking... everybody has a great idea for a movie, but do you have the stamina to get good at your craft and deal with how heartbreaking it is?

  

  Adam Green
  • May
  • Football
  • Idea

• I used to be a bitch. I met her at Hooters. She didn't have big boobs, but she could turn her head in a circle just like an owl. (p. 2).

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • She
  • Owl

• Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Party

• She had married a vulgar man; and, though she had not become like the man, she had become vulgar.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • She

• There is an inverse correlation between the cleanliness of a bathroom and my 3-year-old daughter's need to move her bowels.

  

  Ayelet Waldman
  • Daughter

• Vintage never fits the way you think it will.

  

  Hannah Bronfman

• Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it's with the hope of winning something more.

  

  Derek Kilmer
  • People
  • Why
  • Hope

• We only got clothing once a year, like, right before school began. It's like, that's when you got your clothing.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • School

• I get up at 4:30 A.M. pretty much every morning during the week. I work out for an hour and a half. I do weights and I ride the bike, I run or I play tennis. It's my release.

  

  Cheri Bustos
  • Up
  • Work
  • Pretty

• Freedom under law is like the air we breathe.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Freedom
  • Law
  • Air

• I think there's always going to be some kind of bigotry or some kind of racism. There has to be, because people can't feel that they have any hero qualities unless there's someone beneath them.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • People
  • Hero
  • Racism

• The comedy is always the same. In the first act the hero imagines a place where happiness exists. In the second he strives towards that goal. In the third he comes up short or what amounts to the same thing he achieves his goal only to find that happiness lies a little further down the road.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Road

• The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all till we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Universe
  • Hero

• Based on the experience of history and civilization of mankind, which is more important for Muslims today, to no longer busy discussing the greatness that Muslims achieved in the past, or debating who first discovered the number zero, including the number one, two, three and so on, as the contribution of Muslims in the writing of numbers in this modern era and the foundation and development of civilizations throughout the world. But how Muslims will regained the lead and control of science and technology, leading back and become a leader in the world of science and civilization, because it represents a real achievement.

  

  Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie
  • Experience
  • History
  • Mankind

• Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Hero
  • Mankind
  • Exists