Christina Stead Quotes

It was the rotten fabric woven by evil, the overnight sham bulwarks of enemies of the people; it would burn to ash at the match of truth.

Christina Stead

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• I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Up
  • Love
  • Spoiled

• The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Doubt
  • Print
  • Traditional

• Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Free
  • Wish
  • Crazy

• I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Reality
  • Funny
  • Realize

• Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Opinions

• Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Better
  • Situation
  • Strive

• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Different
  • Think
  • Start

• The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Important
  • Me
  • Learn

• My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Small
  • Goal
  • Movies

• I love animals, and I feel more of a connection to animals than people.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Connection
  • Animals

• I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Identity

• I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Acting
  • Little
  • Directing

• To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true - the form is unparalleled and is home to some of the most original and innovative storytelling around.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Writing
  • Home
  • True

• One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.

  

  Dan Savage

• Here is a bulletin from CBS News: in Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Texas

• I need the Lord's guidance on what to do... I asked God for wisdom.

  

  Ben Carson
  • God
  • Wisdom

• I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • Up
  • Music
  • True

• Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Truth
  • Doubt

• I find that I can't work and listen to radio – either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Work
  • Like
  • Listen

• I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Different
  • Movies
  • Choose

• Here's the lily, here the roseHer full chalice shall disclose;Here's narcissus wet with dew,Windflower and the violet blue.Wear the garland I have made;Crowned with it, put pride away;For the wreath that blooms must fade;Thou thyself must fade some day, Rhodocleia.

  

  Maurice Baring
  • Pride
  • Blue

• It was the rotten fabric woven by evil, the overnight sham bulwarks of enemies of the people; it would burn to ash at the match of truth.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Truth
  • Evil
  • Enemies