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

• The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Hurt
  • Common
  • Duties

• The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Common

• I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Up
  • Good
  • American

• I want my daughters to see me and know me as a woman who works. I want that example set for them... I am a better mother for it. The woman I am because I get to run Shondaland, because I get write all day, because I get to spend my days making things up, that woman is a better person - and a better mother. Because that woman is happy. That woman is fulfilled. That woman is whole. I wouldn't want them to know the me who didn't get to do this all day long. I wouldn't want them to know the me who wasn't doing.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Mother
  • Running
  • Daughter

• Hitler can't walk over me as he might have done a year ago; I've seen to that. Don't forget that I have three million men, with every key position in the hands of my own people, Hitler knows that I have friends in the Reichswehr, you know! If Hitler is reasonable I shall settle the matter quietly; if he isn't I must be prepared to use force - not for my sake but for the sake of our revolution.

  

  Ernst Rohm
  • Friends
  • Revolution
  • Forget

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

  

  Cyril Ritchard
  • Common
  • Background
  • Elegance