D. H. Lawrence Quotes

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

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• Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Nature
  • Space
  • Proud

• When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Me
  • Wind
  • Fans

• Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Man
  • Color
  • Blind

• I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Life
  • Thinking
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• The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Up
  • Movie
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• Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Work
  • Book
  • Chef

• There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Time
  • Beauty
  • Role

• No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Long
  • Real
  • Help

• Women just love to shop.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Women
  • Love
  • Shop

• The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • People
  • Never
  • Constitution

• Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Life
  • War
  • Hope

• There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Law
  • Judge

• A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Great
  • Old
  • Calamity

• Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • You
  • Education
  • Confidence

• As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Actor
  • Television
  • Structure

• If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Love
  • Happy

• The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Human
  • Function
  • Exploration

• A fighter, a real strong fighter, should always look dignified and calm, and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training; then he will face the fight calm and balanced.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Strong

• I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Here
  • Perform
  • Autographs

• When you're on stage performing stand-up, things only happen one time. I've done bits where I improv a joke, and people are dying. The next show, I try to repeat it, I can't do it. Because with the first audience that was our moment. It can't happen the same way again. We were all there: a certain type of people were at that show and we all got it.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Forever
  • Failure
  • Possible

• It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.

  

  David Almond
  • Good
  • Different
  • Children

• Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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