William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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• When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Age
  • Perfect
  • Fire

• Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Period
  • News
  • Fact

• I'm a huge fan of Taio Cruz. I'm really liking what he's doing at the moment. I'd love to do something with him.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Doing
  • Moment
  • Liking

• Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Period
  • Teen
  • Intense

• I don't think there is much American music.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • American
  • Think

• We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Focus

• All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • True
  • Future
  • Brain

• The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Blue

• If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Enough
  • Train
  • Nervous

• Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Think
  • Trump

• But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Know
  • Look
  • Existence

• To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Money
  • Mistake
  • Dawn

• I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Different
  • Always
  • Looking

• I want to be a major force.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Want
  • Force
  • Major

• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Comedy
  • Richer
  • Larger

• From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • First
  • Wanted
  • Just

• You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Change

• I don't sit well. I like to move around as I talk.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Talk
  • Well
  • Sit

• The first splurge that I did, I bought, like, an $80,000 watch, but that's because I'm a rapper. I need jewelry.

  

  Cardi B
  • Jewelry

• But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Dog
  • Kindness
  • Betrayed

• When I was 12, I did my first sort of speaking role. But I wouldn't say I had a passion for it from the start. It developed as I started to become a bit more mature.

  

  Yasmin Paige
  • Passion
  • Firsts
  • Roles

• The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Book
  • Passion
  • Justice