William Morris Quotes

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?

William Morris

• Thinking
• Water
• Wall
• Tree
• Simplicity

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• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Saying

• I was thinking as a little girl growing up that I would be there. When I look at whether we can go to Mars, it's definitely something we can do.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Girl

• I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Family

• When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don't think I would make the best marine biologist.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Water
  • Best

• Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Up
  • Work
  • Country

• I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Up
  • True
  • Water

• I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Past

• The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Past
  • Friend
  • Tree

• That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Real
  • Water
  • Scary

• I am a Justin Bieber fan, but I am also so fascinated by how weird pop music can be and how manipulated it can be, so I enjoy thinking about that side of it too. I feel bad for him. I could never imagine growing up that way.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Fan

• The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Present
  • Moment

• What I think you are going to see is with DACA being gone, it gets rid of the magnet of drawing people over here, thinking they are going to come in and get amnesty.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Drawing

• Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Future
  • House

• We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Paradise

• When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking, and you're over or you're not over. It's much the same when you are doing a tricky thing with a pen. There are times when I'm writing very, very fast.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Horse

• In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Habits

• In a way, 'WALL-E' had some of the same disturbing elements that 'Up' does.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Way
  • Wall

• In a way, the songs are written to be performed. I put them on records, but I'm always thinking about how an audience would react to it. I realized at age 7 that I wanted to be a performer, and I used to do that, and occasionally I'll get an acting job. I don't really make much of a living as an actor, but it's fun to do it when I get a job.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Fun

• There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Good
  • Different
  • Free

• The combined entity Youku Tudou Inc. represents a dominant leader in online video sector in China with the largest user base, most comprehensive content library, most advanced bandwidth infrastructure, and most effective monetization capability.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Leader
  • Library
  • China

• I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Trying

• Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

  

  Willard Gaylin
  • Quality
  • Emotion
  • Shame

• Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?

  

  William Morris
  • Thinking
  • Water
  • Wall