Cyril Ritchard Quotes

My background may be common, but I have specialized in elegance.

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• The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Done
  • True
  • Success

• There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Important
  • Fans
  • Give

• I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Guy
  • Free
  • Me

• When I go out, I love steak and caviar.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Love
  • Steak
  • Caviar

• No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Society
  • Man
  • Doubt

• I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Understand
  • Roots

• Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Place

• Lithium makes a fine battery because it's a scarily reactive metal. Pure lithium ignites on contact if it touches water - a flake of it would sizzle and fry on the water-rich cells of your skin.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Water
  • Skin
  • Cells

• I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Up
  • Music
  • Parents

• The simplest answer is to act.

  

  Amy Sarig King

• In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Business
  • Competition

• The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Words
  • Language
  • Intimacy

• My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Good
  • Names
  • Adam

• Forming a new world religion is difficult and not particularly desirable. However, in that love is essential to all religions, one could speak of the universal religion of love.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Love Is
  • Essentials

• I hope there is an edge to what I do.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Hope
  • Edge
  • I Do

• I'm not saying I'd already done anything, actually, but I'd passed my experimental streak.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Done
  • Saying
  • Passed

• As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Time
  • Children
  • Art

• Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Long
  • Way
  • Elegance

• What we are expecting, after 2012, is a one hundred more times, more harmonious, Utopian world, where things like, time travel, levitation, instant telepathy, instant healing, telekinesis are as common and as everyday, as breathing. And I look forward to that time ...I see a very, very positive future coming.

  

  David Wilcock
  • Time
  • World
  • Future

• I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

  

  Myrna Loy
  • Thinking
  • Common
  • Carrying

• I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.

  

  Stockard Channing
  • Peace
  • Idea
  • Aiming

• My background may be common, but I have specialized in elegance.

  

  Cyril Ritchard
  • Common
  • Background
  • Elegance