Thomas Carlyle Quotes

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

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• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Life
  • Time
  • Want

• The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Death
  • Determined

• In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Work
  • First
  • Drug

• The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Up
  • Health
  • Fitness

• Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Practice
  • Self
  • Meditation

• I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Star

• Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Education

• Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Chinese
  • Writer
  • Soviet

• We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Home
  • War
  • New

• Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Day

• I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.

  

  Young Buck
  • Money
  • Young
  • Talent

• If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Want
  • Rest

• I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Book
  • First
  • Late

• I had fun while I did it, and I left it all out there on the field. I'm tapped out.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Fun
  • Left
  • Field

• That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Day

• 'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic, weird. One of my favourite bands is Ladytron, and I think they'd fit the bill quite well.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Think
  • Dark
  • Weird

• We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • School
  • Education
  • Year

• There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Business

• A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Press

• My favorite red carpet jewelry is by Alberto Parada, who designed my Oscar jewelry, as it's modern yet old school at the same time.

  

  Carly Steel
  • Time
  • School
  • Red

• Louis C.K. was able to make it happen. His producers don't bug him. He's able to go into his cave and write exactly what he wants to write, and there are no decisions made by committee, and you have a singular voice, and everyone's like, 'Oh my God! We love this.'

  

  Parker Posey
  • God
  • Voice
  • Write

• The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up. I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.

  

  Lorde
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Heart

• The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Heart
  • Voice
  • Comparison