Celia Thaxter (Celia Laighton Thaxter) Quotes

Dear little head, that lies in calm content Within the gracious hollow that God made In every human shoulder, where He meant Some tired head for comfort should be laid.

Celia Thaxter

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• I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Long
  • Kids

• I don't miss acting at all.

  

  Zachery Ty Bryan
  • Acting
  • Miss

• When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Know
  • Teenager
  • Rules

• Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Power
  • Leadership
  • Example

• I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Church
  • Religious
  • Sunday

• It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • War
  • Bad
  • End

• People always get confused. They talk about coaches. The reality is, these coaches and managers that everybody thinks are in so much control, they work for us. They're our employees.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Work
  • Reality

• Now I will have less distraction.

  

  Leonhard Euler

• I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.

  

  Lydia Lunch

• United is no longer just a football club; it is an institution. I feel the demands are beyond one human being.

  

  Matt Busby
  • Football

• When you choose to perceive love over fear, life begins to flow. You feel peaceful and you see love in all situations. Your hang-ups subside and your life feels guided.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • Life
  • Fear

• Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now I'm learning from a bunch of little movies. And it's more fun with smaller pictures. It's more creative.

  

  Lea Thompson
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Learning

• I look at all good things with a bit of a dark lens, I suppose, especially with something like love.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Good
  • Dark

• I don't think I present as gender-conforming on screen, but some people need a little extra information.

  

  Yance Ford
  • People
  • Present

• We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make a good movie or not.

  

  Chris Wedge
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Worry

• It's really easy to give in to, 'I want to raise my kids,' 'I want to be the best mom, so I have to give up my dreams.' I don't believe that. I think, if anything, being a living example to your children is beautiful.

  

  Andrea Navedo
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Children

• I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Work

• To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Water
  • motivation
  • Motivational

• London is my home. I miss my family so much; it's hard being away. And I miss salt and vinegar crisps. And Marmite. And good fudge. Oh my God. Clotted cream fudge.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Good
  • God
  • Family

• As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Book

• Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Play

• High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • School
  • Fire
  • Laughing

• Dear little head, that lies in calm content Within the gracious hollow that God made In every human shoulder, where He meant Some tired head for comfort should be laid.

  

  Celia Thaxter
  • Tired
  • Lying
  • Comfort