Alison Uttley Quotes

I do find life difficult at times … and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy … I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?

Alison Uttley

• Imagination
• Difficult
• Foolish
• Behave

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• Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Time
  • Best
  • Professional

• I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Open
  • Engagement
  • Dialogue

• I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • People
  • Think
  • Muscle

• All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Tears

• Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Hero
  • Head
  • Stone

• It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Things
  • Secret
  • Name

• If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Money
  • Know
  • Myself

• I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Better
  • Spring

• Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Men
  • Think
  • Opinion

• I started out doing musicals.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
  • Started
  • Musicals

• There are a thousand ways to play any role.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Play
  • Ways
  • Thousand

• For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Times

• Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Music
  • School
  • Love

• I am indebted to the Indian Army, from my birth till now; I have grown and imbibed the indomitable spirit of this fighting force.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Fighting
  • Spirit
  • Army

• Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Pain
  • Sports
  • Athlete

• For Black Label Special Opps, adversity is what you thrive on. General Patton is a huge fan favorite in Black Label.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Black
  • Adversity
  • Thrive

• When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • World
  • Way
  • Individual

• A lot of the TV shows, they do long hours, and they do a lot of days, and you don't get a lot of time. But the good thing is, if you get one that's made in L.A., or made in a place you want to be, you get to go home every night.

  

  Jason Statham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Science

• A reader's own imagination is a far more powerful form of CGI than anything any movie can provide because it's unique. In your own imagination, you can enter all sorts of worlds, and they are unique to you because no other reader will interpret a book the same way.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Powerful

• I do find life difficult at times … and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy … I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?

  

  Alison Uttley
  • Imagination
  • Difficult
  • Foolish