William Sharp Quotes

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• We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

  

  Otto Frank
  • Children
  • Death
  • Wife

• I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Country
  • Wonderful

• I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Imagination

• The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Way
  • Politics
  • Ready

• Of all the punctuation marks; he told me ellipses were his favorites.

  

  Patrick Modiano

• There was a story that some EMI execs had come down to see you and you'd said something like: 'Here's what I've been working on,' and then produced some cakes from your oven. True? 'No! I don't know where that came from. I thought that was quite funny actually. It presents me as this homely creature, which is all right, isn't it?'

  

  Kate Bush
  • True
  • Funny

• The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, Why, fiddle you must, for all your life.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • People
  • Life
  • Heart

• Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,Adorns and cheers our way;And still, as darker grows the night,Emits a brighter ray.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Night
  • Light

• I'm a brand ambassador. I've been a fan of Nip+Fab for a while, so it fit perfectly. I just love their stuff.

  

  Kylie Jenner

• I don't believe in any kind of fundamentalism.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Believe

• I'm not always in a full face of make-up! That's actually one of the things I like about make-up - that you can strip it away and show your vulnerability.

  

  Dita Von Teese
  • Up
  • Vulnerability

• There have been points in my life as an artist where I have wanted to capture people's attention, probably to compensate for times when I felt invisible.

  

  Anohni
  • People
  • Life
  • Attention

• With modelling, there's nothing to work on other than losing weight. I definitely had an eating disorder.

  

  Margaret Qualley
  • Work

• Skaters are infamously superstitious.

  

  Ashley Wagner

• At one point I couldn't move or get out of bed or anything. I developed blood clots because I'd been completely inactive. Then they thought - because the pain was so much - I had an infection in the bones, so they gave me pills, which gave me a tummy infection. It's like a French farce.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Pain

• I do think the position I play is a powerful position.

  

  Denise Morrison
  • Powerful

• The country that I was coming from, the island I was in, hadn't been written about, really. So I thought that I virtually had it all to myself, including the language that was spoken there, which was a French Creole, and a landscape that is not recorded, really, and the people.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • People
  • Country

• Engvall has an elk hung on the wall.

  

  Bill Engvall
  • Wall

• Ask the world to reveal its quietude - not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • World
  • True
  • Silence

• I went on a meditation retreat. In 10 or so days, I spent about a hundred hours meditating, observing 'noble silence' the whole time, and so on. This was an interesting experience, which has had some beneficial effects for me.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Interesting

• I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Silence
  • Terrified
  • Spaces

• The root of prayer is interior silence.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • Prayer
  • Silence
  • Roots

• I was hoping to go under (one minute) 29.5 and it is quite fun when the bike is working and the lap comes together.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Together
  • Fun
  • Bike

• The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.

  

  William Sharp
  • Silence
  • Waves
  • Wastes