Constance Spry Quotes

China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon.

Constance Spry

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• You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mother
  • Inspiration
  • Suggestions

• If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • You
  • Door
  • Sugar

• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • God
  • Change

• What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • War
  • End

• Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

  

  Oscar De La Hoya
  • World
  • Forget
  • Boxing

• I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Learning

• What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • You
  • Artist

• I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Driving

• It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Life
  • Think
  • Star

• He begins to think for himself and meets Nineteenth-century Rationalism Which can explain away religion by any number of methods.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.

  

  Anthony Trollope

• Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Mind

• I hate to spread rumours: but what else can one do with them?

  

  Amanda Lear
  • Hate

• First there was space-endless, limitless space, so far from everything, so brutal, so frigid, so uncaring that it numbed the mind, not so much from fear or loneliness as from the realization that in this eternity of space the thing that was himself was dwarfed to an insignificance no yardstick could measure.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Space

• I like to think I was just lucky. I didn't think I was better than anybody else, but I could sing everybody's songs.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations

• Change is hard but inevitable.

  

  Jenny Han

• I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I would die if I had to be confined. I don't want to feel that I'm missing out on experiencing as much as I can. For me, experiencing is knowing people all over the world and being able to photograph.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • People
  • World
  • Die

• Some trans people thought that in claiming that gender is performative that I was saying that it is all a fiction, and that a person's felt sense of gender was therefore "unreal." That was never my intention. I sought to expand our sense of what gender realities could be. But I think I needed to pay more attention to what people feel, how the primary experience of the body is registered, and the quite urgent and legitimate demand to have those aspects of sex recognized and supported.

  

  Judith Butler
  • People
  • Gender
  • Realities

• Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Live
  • Man
  • Water

• 'The clerk is dying, Rosemund is dying, you’ve all been exposed. Why shouldn’t I give up hope?''God has not abandoned us utterly,' he said. 'Agnes is safe in his arms.'Safe, she thought bitterly. In the ground. In the cold. In the dark.

  

  Connie Willis
  • Up
  • God
  • Why

• Male nudity, full-frontal nudity, has always been considered a lot more taboo than female nudity. As far back as I can remember, there's been a double standard between men and women. I think it's time that men get equal time in terms of nudity.

  

  Darren Star
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Music
  • Science
  • Language

• China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon.

  

  Constance Spry
  • Fire
  • Tea
  • Afternoon