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.
Quotes to Explore
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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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.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
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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.
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As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.
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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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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.
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He begins to think for himself and meets Nineteenth-century Rationalism Which can explain away religion by any number of methods.
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Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
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Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
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I hate to spread rumours: but what else can one do with them?
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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.
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If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.
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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.
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I try not to be a prisoner to those kinds of thoughts or ideas of what I think my life should be or shouldn't be. That's why I've never had a five-year plan. I always knew that I wanted to have children. It wasn't kind of something that I discovered later. I also never felt the biological clock ticking because I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt.
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I'm sure people see me as quiet and someone who keeps things to himself a little bit. I might be quiet, but there's a lot of fire inside me, and hopefully people see that sometimes.
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The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.
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We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.
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On Common Culture, you'll find coffee, clothing, and compilations. So many C's!
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China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon.
