D. H. Lawrence Quotes

Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

D. H. Lawrence

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• While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Happy

• I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Experience
  • True
  • Know

• Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

  

  Tammy Wynette
  • Man
  • For Her
  • Give

• It always starts with a script. I like to have plenty of time to read something, and I always like to read a paper copy. I hate reading it on email. I sit down with a script, and want to see how it hits me. It's an instinctive process.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Reading

• Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Everybody
  • Ridiculous
  • Hold

• I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Being
  • Writer
  • Before

• It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Up
  • Great
  • High

• There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.

  

  Feist
  • Together
  • You
  • Better

• The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Family
  • May
  • Humanity

• I wasn't known as a neighborhood tough or anything like that. But yeah, I was, like, a scrappy kid. You know, I kind of kept to myself, you know?

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Tough

• I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Know
  • Challenge
  • Child

• Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment... come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Long
  • Jesus
  • Fire

• It's weird to me to see how different everyone's opinion of beauty is.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Different
  • Me
  • Opinion

• My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.

  

  Veruschka von Lehndorff
  • Life
  • Father
  • Parents

• If you convert to Islam after a couple of decades of being a black man in the U.S., the discrimination you receive as a Muslim doesn't feel like a shock.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Man
  • Black
  • Couple

• We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Know

• 'It would please me your not being obsequious. That is a trait of marketplace people who are selling shoddy goods. I am sure to prefer endless, stupid questions to that.''Ob...obseek...?''Obsequious. Flattering with oiliness. It is not liked by me. In Yiqanuc we say: ‘Send the man with the oily tongue to go and lick the snowshoes.’'

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • Stupid

• I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

  

  Aleister Crowley

• A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

  

  Edward Albee
  • Truth

• For generations, Americans who aren't rich have been generous and admiring of their wealthy compatriots - want a country where people who work hard can succeed, where the same rules apply to everyone. They expect to have their own shot at getting rich. But increasingly, they are seeing that the game is rigged.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• For me personally, as I said, I want to serve my country. I've done it once, and I'm still in the army, I feel as though I should get the opportunity to do it again.

  

  Prince Harry
  • Country
  • Done
  • Opportunity

• When I met with Peter Angell, the producer of the CD, we talked about my idea to do songs that I loved and songs that I wished I had recorded. Peter suggested that we pick some songs and see how they work with you and try to come up with arrangements and ideas about how you might want to do them.

  

  Thelma Houston
  • Song
  • Ideas
  • Might

• Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

  

  D. H. Lawrence