D. H. Lawrence Quotes

Don't be sucked in by the su-superior, don't swallow the culture bait, don't drink, don't drink and get beerier and beerier, do learn to discriminate.

D. H. Lawrence

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• I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Why
  • California
  • Living

• I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Long
  • Nature

• I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Love
  • Exciting

• I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Time
  • Society
  • Community

• Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • May
  • Know
  • Values

• The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Culture
  • Change
  • Progress

• Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • People
  • God
  • Thinking

• We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Better
  • Animals
  • Instincts

• Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Up
  • Long
  • Pretty

• The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • You
  • Joy
  • Silly

• I'm really interested in playing my age.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Age
  • Really
  • Interested

• Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Power
  • Problems
  • Solution

• The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Blessing
  • Dalai Lama

• All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Religions

• I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Pretty
  • Teach
  • Preach

• I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Beginning
  • Look

• Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Act
  • Prove
  • Monarchy

• I had this little piece of me that always wanted to be an actress, but I would never say it out loud because it was kind of embarrassing because where in San Jose do you become an actress? You don't, really. It was very far-fetched. It was similar to me saying, 'I want to be a princess.'

  

  Anjelah Johnson
  • Princess

• Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Money
  • Effort
  • Advantage

• When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Song

• Believe me when I say this: you can't please everyone in concert, even though I still want to. Someone always wants you to sing a song that isn't necessarily on your set list.

  

  Gladys Knight Gladys Knight & The Pips
  • Believe
  • Song

• Don't be sucked in by the su-superior, don't swallow the culture bait, don't drink, don't drink and get beerier and beerier, do learn to discriminate.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Culture