Alfred Lansing Quotes
No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.
Alfred Lansing
Quotes to Explore
-
My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
Samantha Cameron
-
I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
Eavan Boland
-
I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.
Ada Lovelace
-
My main inspirations come from early '90s Trance, the French electro movement round '06, then a bunch of artists like Flying Lotus, J Dilla, Moby, The Prodigy. So I'd say it's some kind of experimental electronica with a strong hip hop influence. It's chilled, but people can still get super crazy and dance to it.
Flume
-
I fancy myself at being pretty good at understanding a script and finding the weaknesses, and then making them more radical than they are. People tend to listen to me.
Mads Mikkelsen
-
All of our early hits, 'Danke Schoen' and 'Red Roses,' were produced by Bobby Darin.
Wayne Newton
-
Whatever I feel comfortable in is usually what I'll wear. I go to different events and premieres and walk the red carpet... those things are awkward enough on their own. You don't want to be pulling up a top all night. I will sacrifice foot comfort though. I love high heels.
Mandy Moore
-
I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.
Rachael Taylor
-
The thing about Uggs is that they're so comfortable. Once you've worn them, you don't want to go back.
Tamara Mellon
-
The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.
Vincent D'Onofrio
-
School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.
Kate Bush
-
When I write 'paradise' I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.
Edward Abbey
-
As a parent with young children, I would always find little things that bothered me when I was reading bedtime stories or watching shows or listening to children's music. I couldn't find any stories, games or television shows that were fun and exciting while also being morally instructive and patriotic.
Allen Covert
-
I've never really thought of myself as depressed so much as I am paralyzed by hope.
Maria Bamford
-
What I love about how my career has gone up to this point is that I've always, always put my head down on my pillow at night, and I've been able to say that I've done, honestly, what I've felt like I wanted to do. And that's really all you can hope for in everything you do.
Debbie Gibson
-
It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
-
The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.
John Adams
-
No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.
Alfred Lansing
