Agnes Sligh Turnbull Quotes

The human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

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• Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.

  

  Yuri Andropov
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  • Modern
  • Slow

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Far
  • Void
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• Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • People
  • Country
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• Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Wrong
  • Letter
  • DNA

• I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Think
  • King
  • Hamlet

• Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Think
  • Play
  • Years

• Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • You
  • Listening

• With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Love
  • Short

• I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Live
  • Moon
  • Week

• 'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Age
  • Black

• My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Car

• Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Men
  • Wealth
  • Where

• I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Enjoy
  • Hollywood
  • Bollywood

• I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • Failure
  • Process

• Let us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• The greatest merit of the critical spirit is that it tends to cure fanaticism, and it is logical enough that in our own fanatical times the critical spirit should tend to disappear.

  

  Gabriel Marcel

• Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Passion
  • Ambition

• I've had the honor of working with so many trans people as a hairdresser over my career in some way.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • People
  • Career
  • Honor

• We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Life
  • Funny
  • My Life

• You can't have an energy policy that means you can only have a bath when the wind blows.

  

  Jim Ratcliffe
  • Energy
  • Wind

• It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they are waiting for their soul mate. You even see it in Disney.

  

  Janet McTeer
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• The last, best fruit that comes to perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard; forbearance toward the unforbearing; warmth of heart toward the cold; and philanthropy toward the misanthropic.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Cold

• The human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.

  

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull
  • Soul
  • Suffering
  • Immunity