Anna Brownell Jameson Quotes

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

Anna Brownell Jameson

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• At the Department of Justice, our ability to fulfill our responsibilities - to advocate for victims, to vigorously pursue misconduct, to seek justice in all its forms - depends on public confidence in the institutions we represent.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Justice
  • Confidence
  • Ability

• My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • She
  • Hope

• I used to live on a reserve, but I went back and forth between my reserve and Ottawa where my father lived, so I kind of had a double life growing up.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I know what I want, I want things for myself, but I think the key to life is somebody to love, something to do and something to look forward to. I don't think it's complicated.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Life
  • Love
  • Myself

• I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Before
  • Upset
  • Be Careful

• Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Death
  • Die

• Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have sacred music, minimalist sacred music, which is also music I like, because at the end of the day, that's what I want to do.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • World
  • Music
  • Why

• Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Know
  • Enough
  • Lucky

• What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Group

• I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Hope
  • Church
  • Taken

• Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Success
  • Goal
  • Success Is

• I don't need to be married, but I feel married.

  

  Jon Hamm

• I did a book signing Saturday, actually, in Augusta and people were just coming up to me in tears saying, 'Thank you, for what you've done. You've helped me change my life'.

  

  Ashley Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I don't disrespect the audience. I only sing very well-written, intelligent songs.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Audience
  • Intelligent
  • Songs

• The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank Sinatra and Elvis and all these dudes have made the transition. I don't know about Elvis, 'bout doin' 'em good, y'know? It's nothin' new.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I only found out about Eminem getting on the track like a month ago. As if the song couldn't get any better. He just slays me, he's such a genius.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Genius
  • Track
  • Eminem

• Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

  

  Charles Webster Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Paint

• He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

  

  Anna Brownell Jameson
  • Genius
  • Paint
  • Popularity