Ann Bridge (Mary Ann Dolling) Quotes
Do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.
Quotes to Explore
-
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson
-
The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama.
Naomi Wolf
-
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
Fran Lebowitz
-
My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
Gaby Hoffmann
-
I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.
Rachel Joyce
-
In our league, it comes right down to the end.
Dan Quinn
-
Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
Maggie Smith
-
Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
Pat Buchanan
-
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
Napoleon Bonaparte
-
In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
Fiona Apple
-
In the past, there hasn't been much reliable information about startups and small businesses available online. It's information that's really valuable, and it's information that people want to share.
Adam D'Angelo
-
Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves, yet we do not put ourselves in a condition to achieve great things. We are either too indulgent to our bodies, or we are not indulgent enough.
Orison Swett Marden
-
I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.
Daddy Yankee
-
We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.
Earl Blumenauer
-
Art must not serve might.
Karel Capek
-
No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt: fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.
E. M. Forster
-
Listening is self-empowerment via the empowerment of others.
Warren Farrell
-
I was early taught to work as well as play,My life has been one long, happy holiday;Full of work and full of play -I dropped the worry on the way -And God was good to me every day.
John D. Rockefeller
-
The main objects of the Population Congress would be ... (f) to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.
Margaret Sanger
-
It is true that may hold in these things, which is the general root of superstition; namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.
Francis Bacon
-
This is a small, limited experience, but it has enough follow-up to show us that tissue engineering is a viable tool that will allow us to tackle problems of similar magnitude.
Anthony Atala
-
Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.
Anthony Wayne
-
Do they want me to stay? Do they want me to leave? Do they want me to hang myself? To kill myself? What do they want?
Ai Weiwei
-
Do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.
Ann Bridge