D. H. Lawrence Quotes

When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.

D. H. Lawrence

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• I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Up
  • Sometimes
  • Wake Up

• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Simple
  • Better
  • Voice

• The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Money
  • American
  • Authority

• Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Good
  • School
  • Passion

• The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • English
  • End
  • Personal

• A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Enough
  • Guitar
  • Piano

• She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.

  

  Fay Wray
  • May
  • She
  • True

• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • God
  • Change

• We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Emotional
  • Acting
  • Inspired

• When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Judge

• That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Challenge
  • Without
  • Actress

• You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • May
  • Progress
  • Helpful

• I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Try
  • Flowers
  • Construction

• Pain is never permanent.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Pain
  • Never
  • Permanent

• Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Good
  • Game
  • Sometimes

• Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Good
  • Important
  • May

• We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Ego

• The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Passion
  • Poverty
  • Revenge

• As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Character
  • Child

• More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Life
  • Political
  • Party

• I watched films growing up, but no more than the next guy, really. Working on 'Hugo' made me appreciate cinema and the art of cinema a lot more.

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • Up
  • Art
  • Guy

• Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.

  

  Bede Jarrett
  • Speak
  • Sorrow
  • Grieving

• When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Passion