Adrian Tchaikovsky Quotes

That is the problem with ignorance. You can never truly know the extent of what you are ignorant about.

Adrian Tchaikovsky

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• To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Forgive

• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Time
  • Me
  • Creativity

• At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Growing

• You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Want
  • Famous
  • Married

• Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • People
  • Think
  • Escape

• I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Love
  • Crowds
  • Festivals

• These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Me
  • Sex
  • Days

• At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Time
  • Feel
  • End

• I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Style
  • Clothes
  • Dress

• My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Up
  • Help
  • Age

• Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Day
  • Sympathy

• Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Years
  • Alive
  • Now

• Jerry Rice had won two Super Bowls already by the time he got to his ninth year in the league. That's what it's all about: winning that ring.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Winning
  • Year

• Like every actress, I, too, had movies that got stuck, but I have learnt to always look at the best in every situation and to give my best to every situation.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Best
  • Movies
  • Situation

• When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Everything
  • Piano
  • Chopin

• If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Important

• You've got to get away from the idea cancer is a disease to be cured. It's not a disease really. The cancer cell is your own body, your own cells, just misbehaving and going a bit wrong, and you don't have to cure cancer. You don't have to get rid of all those cells. Most people have cancer cells swirling around inside them all the time and mostly they don't do any harm, so what we want to do is prevent the cancer from gaining control. We just want to keep it in check for long enough that people die of something else.

  

  Paul Davies
  • People
  • Long
  • Body

• I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

  

  Peter Wright
  • Drawing
  • Meditation
  • Observation

• There's a fine line between writing the poem and the poem writing itself. You have to be there and not be there, too.

  

  David Meltzer
  • Writing
  • Between

• That is the problem with ignorance. You can never truly know the extent of what you are ignorant about.

  

  Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Problem
  • Ignorance
  • Extent