Walter Pater Quotes

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

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• I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • School
  • High
  • Want

• I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Up
  • Always
  • Loved

• Good design should be honest.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Good
  • Design
  • Honest

• I think I'm a bit odd.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Odd

• I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Good
  • Art

• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Step
  • Ridiculous
  • Sublime

• My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Evil

• When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Long
  • Society

• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Peace
  • Never
  • Quiet

• At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Age
  • Cool
  • Voice

• Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • World
  • May
  • Fear

• I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • Way
  • You
  • Will

• My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Light

• I don't ever want to be sad about my life.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Sad
  • My Life

• I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Experience
  • Food
  • Lost

• Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Me
  • Imagination
  • Matter

• My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • People
  • Mother
  • Parents

• People are always asking me if I'm frightened, hanging out with al Qaeda, but usually those encounters are one-on-one interviews. I'm talking to people whose views I don't agree with, but that happens all the time.

  

  Lawrence Wright
  • People
  • Time

• Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

  

  David Ogilvy
  • Business

• Watch 'Fear the Walking Dead,' because we'd love your support, but I think 'The 100' is such a great show; it was a great show before I got there. It's only getting better, and I'm so lucky I got to be a part of it.

  

  Alycia Debnam-Carey
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Support

• You have to do something different, or you are just the guy who goes out there and has a great match, but nobody cares. You have to have different layers to your character.

  

  Dolph Ziggler
  • Great
  • Different
  • Character

• To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Feelings

• The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Great
  • Rather
  • Renaissance