Camilla Collett (Jacobine Camilla Collett) Quotes

The one who is happy can never get too early out of bed.

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• I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.

  

  Washed Out
  • Song
  • Simple
  • Try

• Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Children
  • Child
  • Stars

• The idea behind diet confusion is, you have to keep your body off-kilter. So by changing the type of foods that you eat, the frequency of the foods that you eat, you can keep your metabolism revved up.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Up
  • Body
  • Confusion

• Fortunately or not, expectations are always high for all my films.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • High
  • Always
  • Expectations

• The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Determination

• The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • President
  • Him
  • Lights

• I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Been
  • Photographer
  • Amateur

• It's the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become these lovebugs that come back. It's just so sweet.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Daughter
  • Sweet
  • Parent

• When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Respect
  • Yourself
  • Content

• You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.

  

  Dora Russell
  • Men
  • College
  • Tea

• The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of communication and quite helpful when applied in the theory of language.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Powerful
  • Study
  • Communication

• During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Live
  • Food
  • Lost

• If patience and gratitude had been she camels, it would have mattered little on which I rode.

  

  Umar
  • She
  • Patience
  • Gratitude

• When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Free
  • Education
  • Educate

• I find that vegetables like butternut squash, which I feel unexcited about as a side dish, I'm thrilled to eat in a soup.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Sides
  • Vegetables
  • Soup

• Sometimes I start with the beat. Sometimes I can write something down and it takes me a while to figure out how I want to say it or the beat I want to say it to. I definitely like to live the experiences that I cover.

  

  Rashard Bradshaw
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Want

• The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Home
  • True
  • Feeling

• There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Certain
  • Busy

• I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were made in the '20s and '30s. Trying to chase down the exact stylistic trappings of that stuff always felt like a dead end. That spirit of directness and economy, but also the poetic pungency of the writing and almost ugly, or raw, performance - all that seemed like the real message. I've just tried to somehow stay true to that feeling.

  

  Will Sheff Okkervil River
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Economy

• I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Done
  • End
  • Realize

• Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Going
  • Bed
  • Before

• I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Rain

• The one who is happy can never get too early out of bed.

  

  Camilla Collett
  • Bed