William Morris Quotes
...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.William Morris
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!
Barry Humphries -
When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
Sam Brownback -
I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
Garth Brooks -
It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
Zadie Smith -
It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
Felicity Kendal
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As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
Naveen Jain -
I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
Sam Shepard -
War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
Ted Turner -
Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
Lajos Kossuth -
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
Abraham Lincoln -
I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
Yann Martel
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
Olafur Eliasson -
All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
Rachel Dratch -
We are all terminal.
Jack Kevorkian -
Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
Yayoi Kusama -
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
Gail Sheehy -
I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
Natassia Malthe
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Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.
Radhanath Swami -
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'
George Grosz -
Julia Child came to my house and wanted a lesson in making risotto.
Lidia Bastianich -
Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in galleries than can surgery be learned by casual visits to a hospital.
Albert C. Barnes -
Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.
Katherine Waterston -
...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.
William Morris