Charles Lane Poor Quotes

I have read various articles on the fourth dimension, the relativity theory of Einstein, and other psychological speculation on the constitution of the universe; and after reading them I feel as Senator Brandegee felt after a celebrated dinner in Washington. "I feel," he said, "as if I had been wandering with Alice in Wonderland and had tea with the Mad Hatter."

Charles Lane Poor

• Tea
• Constitution
• Various
• Psychological
• Wander
• Speculation

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• If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Jump
  • Skin
  • Wood

• Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Job
  • Environment
  • Growth

• The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Challenges

• I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Women
  • Free
  • Amazing

• People in Texas wear cowboy hats; they're good at keeping the sun off your neck and face.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Good
  • Sun

• Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Driving

• I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come out. And that character I liked. I tried to ground him very much in reality and play him very much finding things important to him that are somewhat ridiculous.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Different
  • Important
  • School

• We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too.… Over a period of three years or so, we killed off - what - twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure?

  

  Curtis LeMay
  • War
  • Period

• One of my favorite movies is 'Some Like It Hot,' which isn't really a musical, but I'm just such a sucker for old movies. I wouldn't want to ever tarnish one of them, or do a spot-on remake, but just do something light like that where I get to glide across the floor. I would be a very happy camper.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Happy
  • Light

• Surgery is not going to improve your skin - all it's going to do is make you look tighter, like Joan Rivers!

  

  Marie Helvin

• We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-shopping in the European Union.

  

  Mark Rutte
  • Business
  • Model
  • Shopping

• I think the only festival I ever went to was Warped Tour.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco

• The easiest way to not believe your own hype is to not know what people are saying about you.

  

  Debby Ryan
  • People
  • Believe

• I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion.

  

  James W. Black
  • Up
  • Help
  • Passion

• There were a lot of lyrics that I sang but didn't understand. But I had this facade in performance of looking like I wrote the book.

  

  Elaine Stritch
  • Book
  • Lyrics

• The men and women of our armed forces played an instrumental role in the election process - securing polling sites and providing security - that allowed so many Iraqis the opportunity to vote freely for the first time ever.

  

  John M. McHugh
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• No tablecloths, silver cutlery, fine porcelain, sommeliers, or deep wine lists - that's fine. But no service or hospitality? That's going too far.

  

  Daniel Humm
  • Deep
  • Service
  • Wine

• 'Wouldn't you like to come in and have a cup of tea and dry off?''Lady, don't you realize that we don't even have time to pull up our shorts?''Pull up your shorts?''YES, PULL UP OUR SHORTS!' I screamed at her and walked off into the wall of water.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Up
  • Time
  • Water

• There are some who apparently feel that the fight for freedom is separate from the Gospel. They express it in several ways, but it generally boils down to this: Just live the gospel; there's no need to get involved in trying to save freedom and the Constitution or stop communism.... Should we counsel the people, 'Just live your religion - there's no need to get involved in the fight for freedom?' No we should not, because our stand for freedom is a most basic part of our religion.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Freedom
  • Fight
  • Constitution

• Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Perspective
  • Psychological
  • Disagree

• When I wrote 'The Interestings,' I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.

  

  Meg Wolitzer
  • Time
  • Book
  • Freedom

• I have read various articles on the fourth dimension, the relativity theory of Einstein, and other psychological speculation on the constitution of the universe; and after reading them I feel as Senator Brandegee felt after a celebrated dinner in Washington. "I feel," he said, "as if I had been wandering with Alice in Wonderland and had tea with the Mad Hatter."

  

  Charles Lane Poor
  • Tea
  • Constitution
  • Various