Bella Bathurst Quotes
Witches is being sold as an account of the Belvoir scandals, but in truth, Tracy Borman has written a thorough and beautifully researched social history of the early 1600s, taking in everything from folk medicine to James I's sex life.
Bella Bathurst
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
Oscar Niemeyer
I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
Victoria Pendleton
Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
Mallory Ortberg
If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
Larry Brilliant
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson
I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
Eartha Kitt
I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
Wallace Shawn
We always think that we're going to be young forever, and now when I wake up, I need to stretch, and I need to have my glass of water and be cognizant of what I'm doing with my body.
Octavia Spencer
'Holy Smoke' is very brave because I don't think it's easy to watch.
Kate Winslet
You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
Nancy Gibbs
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.
Laura Riding
I write exactly as I speak, so therefore I would not say any writer influenced me at all.
Maeve Binchy
This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.
Patrick Modiano
When you start the next project you have to forget everything you did before, otherwise Dark Knight will start to sound like Kung Fu Panda.
Hans Zimmer
'I have a covenant with God. I cannot ask for anything outside what is written in the covenant. What I will achieve in this world is in a book I am carrying everyday; I just have to open the pages. Outside the book is not mine.'
T. B. Joshua
'Yes yes yes, later. For now I would ask you to proclaim next Friday from the mimbar in the masjid that the French are protectors of the faith and friends of the Prophet.'
Anthony Burgess
