William Macneile Dixon Quotes

All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And that context, astounding even to bodily eyes, is the heaven of stars and the incredible procession of the great galaxies.

William Macneile Dixon

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• I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • People
  • Past
  • Best

• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Game

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Never
  • Take

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• When I read the script and saw the jazz music setting, and when I read the name of the filmmaker was Damien Chazelle, I immediately got this mental image of Antoine Fuqua.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Music
  • Name
  • Jazz

• I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Pretty
  • Myself
  • Hard

• Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Better
  • Regret

• Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

  

  La Monte Young
  • People
  • You
  • Education

• I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Hair
  • Choice
  • Days

• My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Thinking
  • Dreams
  • Emotions

• I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Nice
  • Kind
  • Easy

• I read every country's perspective on an issue. I also play many games like Bridge, Scrabble and Sudoku online.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Country
  • Perspective
  • Bridge

• I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Done
  • Passion
  • Study

• The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Society
  • Judge
  • View

• I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Should
  • Everyone
  • Judged

• I don't see Hollywood as the big enemy, because this is where the money is, and not all of the companies are doing studio movies. I'm not tempted to sell out. If I'm going to become well known, I want it to be for something I'm proud of.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Money
  • Proud
  • Enemy

• If freedom of movement is to be sustainable, then our publics must see it as freedom to move to work, rather than freedom to choose the most generous benefits.

  

  George Osborne
  • Work
  • Freedom

• Defensively the Red Sox are a lot like Stonehenge. They are old, they don't move, and no one is certain why they are positioned the way they are.

  

  Dan Shaughnessy
  • Move
  • Defensively
  • Positioned

• I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.

  

  Joe Jonas DNCE
  • Life

• We need to find secular ways to cultivate warm-heartedness. We need secular ways to educate ourselves about inner values. The source of a happy life is within us. Trouble makers in many parts of the world are often quite well educated, so it is not just education that we need. We need to pay attention to inner values.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • World
  • Happy

• All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And that context, astounding even to bodily eyes, is the heaven of stars and the incredible procession of the great galaxies.

  

  William Macneile Dixon
  • Life
  • Roots
  • Infinite