Angela Thirkell Quotes

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Angela Thirkell

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• I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Care
  • Leadership
  • Forced

• There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Learned
  • Grateful

• It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Fast
  • Languages
  • Pick

• A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

  

  Sam Keen
  • People
  • Job
  • Society

• The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Love
  • Love Is
  • Apple

• There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • Way
  • Peace

• Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • American
  • Name
  • Irish

• If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • House
  • You
  • Try

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Children
  • Feel
  • Loved

• It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Faith
  • Doing
  • Leap

• A good fan base has developed around the Hurricanes, and I see the opportunity for continued growth for this franchise in the future.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Good
  • Future
  • Opportunity

• 'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Live
  • Nature

• There was a time when I was offered two episodes of 'Alias,' that show with Jennifer Garner which J.J. Abrams did back before he became the mega producer and super successful director. I instead decided I wanted to play this family guy on a short-lived UPN 'Second Time Around.' It starred Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Time
  • Family
  • Guy

• It was always part of the plan to move into acting.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Always
  • Acting
  • Plan

• Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Science
  • Trust
  • Yourself

• In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• I've said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Repeat
  • Studies
  • Attribute

• You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Drama

• In the guise of so-called freedom of separation of church and state, they're trying to institute a communist country and that sounds radical but that's the truth. I mean, why aren't they trying to take out, you know, 'thou shall not kill'? That's a religious concept. That's a commandment. Why are they not taking that out of our legal system?

  

  Christine O'Donnell
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Why

• The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate it from superstition, falsity, or misinformation. And there is no better system for determining the truth than free speech: Testing the validity of an idea in the waters of public discussion and debate.

  

  Dave Rodgers
  • Truth
  • Water
  • Existence

• If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

  

  Angela Thirkell
  • Truth
  • Lie
  • Stick