Benedict of Nursia Quotes

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

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• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Career
  • Lucky
  • Critics

• I need to be more consistent about taking care of myself no matter how busy I am.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Care
  • Busy
  • Consistent

• I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Year
  • Name
  • Prison

• Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Women
  • Common
  • Citizenship

• I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Books
  • Read
  • Whatever

• Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • Struggle

• Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Great
  • Honesty

• I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Night

• A desert's a stupid place to put a river.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Stupid
  • River
  • Desert

• Being Queen is a profession, a job, a position, an office that one cannot put aside when you come home from work. It is there all the time - and it is there all your life.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Mont Blanc is the Monarch of mountains;They crowned him long ago,On a throne of rocks - in a robe of clouds –With a Diadem of Snow.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Long
  • Snow
  • Clouds

• A lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed young men sitting in their mother's basements and ranting. They are very angry people.

  

  Andrew Marr
  • People
  • Men
  • Mother

• L'accent est l'âme du discours.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.

  

  James Gleick
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Air

• There was a time when the Republican Party could discuss possible reforms to our gun laws: Ronald Reagan himself endorsed the Brady Bill and the assault weapons ban that passed in 1994.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • Time
  • Party
  • Gun

• I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.

  

  Jamie Bell
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Conversations create change. It's easy to call someone 'enemy,' but there's more to it, right?

  

  Elliot Page
  • Enemy

• I've made a point of trying not to play the same part and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year, and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy. Or at least, it's my strategy to keep my head together.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Family
  • Born
  • Shame

• I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.

  

  Juan Cole
  • Policy
  • Discussions
  • Dominate

• I think my biggest revelation was to write entirely from the heart, and to convey emotion, even when it meant forcing myself to feel uncomfortable in doing so.

  

  Alex Gaskarth All Time Low
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Heart

• Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

  

  Benedict of Nursia
  • Heart
  • Listen
  • Ear