Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

Thomas Carlyle

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Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.

Edgardo Osorio
- Time
- World
- Women
There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

M. Night Shyamalan
- Alone
- Looking
- U.S.
I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

Sally Mann
- Done
- Mother
- Pretty
When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.

D. B. Sweeney
- Team
- Worry
- Learn
Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.

Edmund White
- Success
- Me
- Boy
I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.

Laura Haddock
- Together
- Weird
- Knife