Walter Pater Quotes

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

Walter Pater

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• In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • College
  • Beginning
  • Summer

• I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Popular

• It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Me
  • Actress
  • Stereotype

• I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Day
  • Baseball
  • Dreams

• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Universe
  • Chance

• In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Live
  • Grow
  • Old-fashioned

• A mom can't afford to be sick.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Mom
  • Sick
  • Afford

• In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • History
  • Easy

• The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Advice
  • Give
  • Someone

• When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Paris

• I always wanted pink hair.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Always
  • Hair
  • Pink

• I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Support

• I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.

  

  Halsey
  • Single
  • Doing
  • Gold

• I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Music
  • Know

• We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Book
  • Freedom
  • Kind

• Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Truth
  • Think

• As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Different
  • You
  • Person

• I knew being a musician was my calling when I was 12 or 13. I started singing when I was six but didn't actually see myself being a singer when I was 12 or 13.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • See

• The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Know

• We have to recognize that sin is a fact, not a defect; sin is red-handed mutiny against God. Either God or sin must die in my life...If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Die

• Once you realize you can make people laugh, it's a superpower. When you're really young, you don't know how to use that power, so I would just say the meanest things I could to get a laugh. I was so awful. I would make fun of kids who didn't deserve to get made fun of. I was just mean, when I was really young. You don't realize that you don't have to be mean to be funny. But, it was something that I was just able to grow into.

  

  Nick Swardson
  • Laugh
  • Make
  • Superpower

• To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Success
  • Flame