Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE (Rebecca West) Quotes

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE

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• I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
  • Riches

• I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Learning
  • Road
  • English

• There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

  

  Banksy
  • Art
  • Know
  • Trust

• I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Politics
  • Texas
  • Impact

• I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Up
  • Family
  • Faith

• I normally hit the gym five times a week. I tend to do half an hour of cardio - on the treadmill or a spin class - then head for the weights. I do a lot of core work, obviously!

  

  Fleur East
  • Work
  • Week
  • Gym

• My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Real
  • Father
  • Name

• When I was growing up I always wanted to be a waitress. My sister opened a restaurant in Mississippi, and I went down there and was a waitress for a few days. Let me tell you, I got it out of my system.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Growing
  • Sister
  • Growing Up

• Today, the culture can hardly, if at all, reflect the society in which people live.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • People
  • Live
  • Today

• The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing, either includes the non-existence of that thing or the non-existence of some of its good conditions.

  

  Maimonides
  • Good
  • Evil

• Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted in nature as to die.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Nature
  • Die

• The road's a tough life, but I said 'yes,' because as a kid growing up in Ohio, I never had a chance to see a Tony-winning actress in a role she won the Tony for.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• Grinding is a mindset and a willingness and commitment to work at it.

  

  J. B. Bickerstaff
  • Work
  • Commitment
  • Mindset

• I've got good vibes up here in the Akron area, Cleveland area.

  

  Jason Day
  • Up
  • Good

• I can't say that it's a dream come true because when I was growing up, I never dreamed of playing in the Olympics.

  

  Brooke Sweat
  • Up
  • True
  • Dream

• We tend to believe that things are impossible that are very possible.

  

  Jim McKelvey
  • Believe

• I struggle quite a lot in rehearsals, partly because I'm shy, partly because I still don't really understand the work that actors and directors do. I love the magic at the end, but the getting there - the wrong turns that are necessary to make something work - I find slightly beguiling and worrying.

  

  Jack Thorne
  • Work
  • Struggle
  • Magic

• I have always joked that I have three mothers. I couldn't get away with anything as a kid. Whether I got a bad mark or was told off, it would always end up getting back to my parents.

  

  James William Middleton
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Parents

• Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • People
  • Realising
  • Disappoint

• I want to thank my mom, Brenda Rose. My heart, the reason I play the way I play, just everything. Just knowing the days I don't feel right, going to practice, having a hard time, I think about her when she had to wake me up, go to work and make sure I was all right. Those were hard days.

  

  Derrick Rose
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm very unorganized.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Very
  • Unorganized

• I always feel I could be like Toni Collette, going between big studio things and indie films. That would be feasible.

  

  Chloe Sevigny

• God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

  

  Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE
  • Practice
  • Banned
  • Forbid