Arthur Frederick Saunders Quotes

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

Arthur Frederick Saunders

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• One school invited me down, as two pupils had come out, and the headmaster didn't know what to do about it. I said, 'How many students here are gay?' and he said, 'Just these two.' Clearly not. 'How many gay members of staff have you got?' He had no idea. And this was a concerned man.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • School
  • Gay
  • Idea

• Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Character
  • Hip Hop

• My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Dad

• I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.

  

  Rae Carson
  • World
  • Think
  • Open-minded

• Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • First
  • Will
  • Direction

• When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • Yourself
  • Partner

• Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Women
  • Fashion

• In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Different
  • Studio

• I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Me
  • Doing
  • Everything

• Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Love
  • Values
  • For Her

• If they come prying they can leave curious.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• Sed ego adolescentulus initio sicuti plerique studio ad rem publicam latus sum, ibique mihi multa adversa fuere. Nam pro pudore, pro abstinentia, pro virtute, audacia, largitio, avaritia vigebant.

  

  Sallust
  • Ego

• Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Science

• Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!To all the sensual world proclaim,One crowded hour of glorious lifeIs worth an age without a name.

  

  Walter Scott
  • World
  • Age

• Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Literature

• You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

  

  Clarence Day
  • People

• A great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Great

• It's very important that people who are feeling the need to do something... get activated.

  

  Maxine Waters
  • People
  • Important
  • Feeling

• The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Comedy
  • Function
  • Analysisright

• I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Believe
  • Practice
  • Pay

• ...you don't have to know just what people are doing and feeling to be of assistance to them. Your own life seems to you like a very small lighted room, with great darkness all around it, and you can't see out into the darkness and know what is happening there. But light and warmth from your room can go out into the darkness if you don't have the windows selfishly curtained, keep a brave fire burning, and light all the happy candles you can.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Assistance

• Art strives for structure, and aspires for magnificence.

  

  George Bellows
  • Structure
  • Magnificence
  • Aspires

• Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

  

  Arthur Frederick Saunders
  • Light
  • Effect
  • Nonsense