D. H. Lawrence Quotes

And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.

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• The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Life
  • Art
  • True

• I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Career
  • Politics
  • Strength

• I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.

  

  Iman
  • Girl
  • Thought
  • Treat

• Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Positive
  • Research
  • Negative

• In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Culture
  • Old
  • Buildings

• I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.

  

  B. B. King
  • Women
  • Most
  • Singer

• I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • High
  • Game
  • Pretty

• Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.

  

  Xenophon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Escape

• I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!

  

  Kat Graham
  • Want
  • Cooking
  • Arts

• As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Proud
  • Military
  • Thought

• I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Time
  • House
  • Singing

• I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Job
  • Rest
  • Moon

• Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Country
  • Laws
  • India

• I never lie to my fans.

  

  Becky G
  • Never
  • Fans
  • Lie

• But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • History
  • Future
  • Change

• Obviously I like pretty girls, but I'm also looking for someone who can take control. I know guys complain about girls telling them what to do, but I think we all kind of enjoy it.

  

  Damian McGinty
  • Pretty
  • Control
  • Enjoy

• I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.

  

  Taryn Simon
  • People
  • Up
  • Night

• John Carpenter had a lot to do with putting social messages into genre movies.

  

  Jason Blum

• I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Time
  • Great
  • Book

• The greatest miracle of all time, without any close seconds, is the universe. It is the miracle of all miracles, one that ineluctably points with the combined brightness of every star to something - or Someone - beyond itself.

  

  Eric Metaxas
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Star

• I think I spent more time on the mellotron than on any other instrument in the studio, and it got to the point where I was like, "Well, you can't write an entire album on this instrument." But maybe I would!

  

  Zach Condon
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I want to carry on in my dad's footsteps and make sure his message lives on forever. I feel like that's why I've been put on this planet - to get my message across.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Why
  • Dad
  • Forever

• And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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