Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!

Thomas Carlyle

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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

Francesca Lia Block
On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

Candace Parker
- School
- High
- Reality
Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

F. Murray Abraham
- Mirror
- Face
- Once
My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.

Kate Christensen
- Life
- Up
- Woman
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

Abbas Kiarostami
- Life
- Time
- Opportunity
I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

Lana Turner
- Up
- Good
- Lose