William Gurnall Quotes
Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by His heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils.William Gurnall
Quotes to Explore
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
L. Neil Smith -
You have to be yourself.
Young Thug -
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
Orson Welles -
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
Hannah Kent -
There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.
M. J. Rose -
Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
Abdus Salam
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
Mandy Moore -
What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
Natalie Cole -
I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.
Yasmine Al Masri -
I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.
Sally Mann
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I'm vegetarian and stick to a strict health regime of brown rice, tofu, salads and soya milk. When I'm at home in Somerset, I buy almost everything in the local farmshops including Barleymow's in Chard. I always get organic - I like happy hens.
Kate O'Mara -
My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
Vanessa Williams -
You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
N. T. Wright -
There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.
Randeep Hooda -
Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
Zygmunt Bauman -
I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.
Karen Gillan
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As a presidential candidate, Mr. Trump is going to get tough questions from the press and has to answer them.
Randy Falco -
..the long Russian word for creation: 'proisvedenie' - so different from its shorter counterparts in English, French and German - expresses for me the whole history and process of creation, lengthy, mysterious, infinitely complex and foreshadowed by divine predestination.
Wassily Kandinsky -
A line has to have a certain number of syllables, and the next line has to be its mirror image.
Bonnie McKee -
Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
Ramana Maharshi -
An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.
W. H. Auden -
Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by His heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils.
William Gurnall