Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
-
The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
-
With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.
-
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
-
Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
-
I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
-
I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
-
When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
-
Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
-
The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
-
Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
-
That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
-
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
-
'Vanity' means worthlessness.
-
DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
-
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
-
I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
-
My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
-
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
-
As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.
-
Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
-
I really try to get eight hours of sleep, and I really try not to go out after a Tuesday or Friday night show because I know I have a two-show day the following day.
-
I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
-
Thought is the parent of the deed.
