William Sharp Quotes

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

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• I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • Regret
  • Questions

• 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

• As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.

  

  Patricia Norris
  • Character
  • Situation
  • Try

• 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

• As life goes on I'm starting to learn more and more about responsibility.

  

  Akon
  • Life
  • Responsibility

• 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

• What people want is a sense of a better future to come.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • People
  • Future

• When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

  

  Plato
  • People
  • Up
  • May

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

  

  Margaret Qualley
  • Work

• 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

• One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to make you distracted, to fill the people of God and the Church of God with so much noise and activity that there is no room for prayer. There is no room for being alone with God. There is no room for silence. There is no room for meditation.

  

  Paul Washer
  • People
  • God
  • Alone

• Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

  

  Saadi
  • Good
  • Men
  • Silence

• Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the lamplight of the living room, shining golden, and inside the little blue square of the television, each living family riveting its attention on probably one show; nobody talking; silence in the yards; dogs barking at you because you pass on human feet instead of wheels.

  

  Geoff Nicholson
  • Attention
  • Silence
  • Walking

• The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos. - The judge.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Freedom
  • Judge

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

  

  William Sharp
  • Silence
  • Waves
  • Wastes