Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

Thomas Carlyle

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• To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Today
  • White

• Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Success

• The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • You
  • Wealth
  • Percent

• It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Real
  • Fight
  • List

• When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.

  

  Banks
  • Thinking
  • Feel
  • Better

• I wasn't, like, this top model; I was quietly doing my work, and when I became an actress, people started doing research, and everybody found out. People dug out photos, and suddenly people became interested - but no one was interested in my photos when I was a model.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Work
  • Model

• I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Night

• It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Movie
  • You
  • Story

• I'm a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she's my muscle.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Time
  • She
  • Play

• I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Work
  • Interesting
  • Like

• Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Men
  • Women
  • Single

• I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Kids
  • College
  • Baseball

• So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • School
  • Happened
  • Graduation

• In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Family
  • Her
  • Respectable

• It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

  

  Salman Rushdie

• You as stupid as they come. Of course, I say this with your best interests at heart. Most people are stupid. I don't hold it against them.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Heart
  • Stupid

• We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

  

  Benjamin Harrison
  • World
  • God
  • Police

• They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

  

  Anthony Holden
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.

  

  Sam Robards
  • Job
  • Parents
  • Acting

• I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

  

  Ben Okri
  • Friends
  • Happy
  • Homeless

• As we get older, people close down. We get less adaptive, less flexible - literally. Curiosity can diminish, and you want safety. You want what you know.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • People
  • Safety
  • Curiosity

• Redwoods flourish in fog, but they don't like salt air. They tend to appear in valleys that are just out of sight of the sea. In their relationship with the sea, redwoods are like cats that long to be stroked but are shy to the touch.

  

  Richard Preston
  • Relationship
  • Touch
  • Flourish

• Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Heart
  • Trust
  • Old Clothes