Thomas Carlyle Quotes

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

Thomas Carlyle

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• I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Family
  • Wish
  • Child

• I will come to know when my time's up, and when it is, I will exit gracefully. I will not hang around till I am kicked out.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Time
  • Exit
  • Kicked

• I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Sister
  • Rooms
  • Planets

• I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.

  

  Little Richard
  • Rock
  • Fan
  • Rock N Roll

• If you can't bear what's happening to the natural world, if you can't bear the way we treat each other; if you can't bear wars, you just can't bear the whole idea of war, which is possibly unavoidable. But still, you resist it. Because you just hate our treating each other that way and causing that suffering.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • World
  • War
  • Hate

• We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Explore
  • Unknown
  • Curiosity

• I think for most people, the audience probably couldn't tell the difference, but I know they [shots of visual effects] can be better. And the people working know they can be more precise. I'm still doing another round of sound mixing and color timing, pretty technical stuff. I think the movie [Life of Pi] is really presentable, nothing was left out that would take you out of the movie. I just need to perfect the job and I still have two weeks to go [to deliver final cut to Fox].

  

  Ang Lee
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Time
  • Today
  • Moving

• Obviously I've got to work hard to have my own label, but it all benefits me in a different kind of way. I can say "No," and nobody's going to be pissed off or breathe down my neck. I can draw the line and take breaks when I want to. I try not to. And getting to develop other artists is something I've always wanted to do.

  

  Louise Harman
  • Work
  • Different
  • Breathe

• I was much more afraid in Montgomery when I had a gun in my house. When I decided that I couldn’t keep a gun, I came face-to-face with the question of death and I dealt with it. From that point on, I no longer needed a gun nor have I been afraid. Had we become distracted by the question of my safety we would have lost the moral offensive and sunk to the level of our oppressors.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Death
  • Question
  • Safety

• Being myself didn't work. Being someone else didn't work. Maybe I just wasn't meant to have friends.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Meant

• The most important question for me when I begin working on a film is where to start. For a book, what makes you convinced there is a story that is worthwhile?

  

  Wim Wenders
  • Important
  • Book
  • Film

• Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Reach
  • Physical
  • Mental

• I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Guitar
  • Boats
  • Beer-Holder

• When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel - I waited patiently for the chance to learn what happened.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Art
  • Chance
  • Flight

• Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Beauty

• My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • She
  • Smart
  • Sister

• I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Always
  • Chance
  • Door

• The impossibility of keeping Englishmen sober ashore was a constant source of complaint, It was the great weakness of 16th century English infantrymen, whose performance when sober was admired even by the Spaniards. Already it was true, as it was to be for centuries, that many saw and despised the drunken sailor ashore, but few knew and admired him at his work afloat.

  

  Nicholas Rodger
  • Weakness
  • Complaints
  • Impossibility

• In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • Done
  • Play

• When it comes to actually writing, I like to write in a full room with the amps blasting, and a big drum set.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Writing
  • Drum
  • Full Room

• The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Emptiness
  • Loud
  • Drum