Anna Kingsford Quotes

By far the larger number of the dreams... occurred towards dawn; sometimes even, after sunrise, during a "second sleep." A condition of fasting, united, possibly, with some subtle magnetic or other atmospheric state, seems therefore to be that most open to impressions of the kind.

Anna Kingsford

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• I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Life
  • Love
  • Dad

• As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Time
  • Football
  • Year

• Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Trouble
  • Laugh
  • Class

• In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Money
  • Easy
  • Economists

• We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Health
  • Sick
  • Choose

• When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Environment

• If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Country
  • Knowledge
  • Start

• I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Love
  • Professional
  • Tired

• I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • Person
  • Speak
  • Actions

• My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Music
  • Too Much

• I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Money
  • Job

• The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Crazy

• I certainly wouldn't mind if 'Jurassic Park' turns out to be commercially successful, and somebody says, 'Hey, you were in a box-office hit, and if you want to do another movie, we'll give you five million dollars to make it.'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Mind
  • Movie
  • Want

• It's not about big markets or small markets. It's not about dominant teams or not. It's about the actual competition and how good the games are, how good the series turn out. That's what I think is the most important for fans.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Good
  • Important
  • Small

• The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Done
  • Reward
  • Well Done

• No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Life
  • Education
  • Pain

• Fascism denies that numbers, as such, can direct human society. It denies that numbers can govern by means of periodical consultations: It asserts the unavoidable fruitful and beneficent inequality of men who cannot be leveled by any such mechanical and extrinsic device as universal suffrage.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Men
  • Society

• I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter But my will gets weak And my thoughts seem to scatter But I think it's about forgiveness Forgiveness Even if, even if you don't love me anymore.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Heart
  • Thoughts
  • Forgiveness

• I'd sleep under a Vermeer.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Sleep

• I stayed under the moon too long.I am silvered with lust.Dreams flick like minnows through my eyes.My voice is trees tossing in the wind.I loose myself like a flock of blackbirdsstorming into your face.My lightest touch leaves blue prints,bruises on your mind.Desire sandpapers your skinso thin I read the veins and arteriesmaps of routes I will traveltill I lodge in your spine.The night is our fur.We curl inside it licking.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Night

• Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Up
  • Art

• Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Free
  • Matter
  • Show

• I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Believe
  • Actor
  • William Shakespeare

• By far the larger number of the dreams... occurred towards dawn; sometimes even, after sunrise, during a "second sleep." A condition of fasting, united, possibly, with some subtle magnetic or other atmospheric state, seems therefore to be that most open to impressions of the kind.

  

  Anna Kingsford
  • Sleep
  • Dreams
  • Sunrise