Wendy Beckett (Sister Wendy) Quotes

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.

Wendy Beckett

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• It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• I've been going to the same barber the last few years, and we have great chats whenever I'm in the chair. He'll ask: 'How you doing? How's the training going?' Just ordinary, obvious things, but then, like you do with your barber, you start talking about personal stuff.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Great
  • Training
  • Same

• I've had a great ride. I've got no complaints.

  

  Larry King
  • Great
  • Got
  • Ride

• The Lakers have been nothing but great to me, and I want to keep the relationship great.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Great
  • Want
  • Me

• I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Work
  • Great
  • Believe

• So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup - but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Great
  • Character
  • Movie

• I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Great
  • Food
  • Cooking

• I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface; I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to... well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• When I was fourteen years old, our family drove all the way from Vancouver to Newfoundland and back. I've been all across the great land of Canada. I absolutely love the Maritimes, and I'm very excited to go back, particularly in the fall when it's one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Great
  • Family
  • Beautiful

• My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.

  

  M. Ward
  • Up
  • Great
  • Food

• The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • World
  • Great
  • Together

• A seed is small in size. But it carries in its womb leaves, flowers, fruits, nay even the whole tree. The human brain is very much like a seed. It may not have a great shape and size. But it traps within itself endless possibilities. It is a fountainhead of thoughts and promises that can be fulfilled.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Great
  • May
  • Small

• It doesn't give me any satisfaction to think that my concerns will be validated by my grandchildren's generation. I would love to be wrong in everything. My grandchildren are my stake in the near future, and it's my great hope that they might one day say, 'Grandpa was part of a great movement that helped to turn things around.'

  

  David Suzuki
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Future

• I like to celebrate my life. I have a life that I'm really lucky to have, and so I want to make sure every minute counts and that I go on great vacations and I share my memories with people that I love and that will make me laugh and lalalalalala.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• The one who really captured me and became my absolute favorite was Nat King Cole. He was a genius at what he did. Most people don't realize what a great pianist he was. After listening to him for years, I finally met him, and he was the nicest human being.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • People
  • Great
  • Listening

• I'd love to visit South America, especially Argentina, as I'm a winemaker myself. They do a fantastic malbec, so it would be a dream to sample their grapes. New Zealand would be great, too. I'm a golfer, so it would combine both my loves.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Great
  • America
  • Dream

• My wife has great taste in everything but men. The vast majority of the songs on my debut album, 'Traveller,' came from lists she made.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Great
  • Men
  • She

• My grandfather was Scottish and just loved the game. My grandmother was a great golfer and a club champion. Whenever I was visiting them, I got a double barrel of golf lore. I guess it was always in my blood.

  

  Mark Frost
  • Great
  • Game
  • Golf

• Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism, and a battle hymn for the people's unity against the great enemy of mankind: the United States of America.

  

  Che Guevara
  • People
  • Great
  • America

• It was great for that to be my first movie with such a wonderful cast, and such a huge movie. And now I get to do The Fighting Temptations, which is coming out soon-it wasn't much of a character, it was more of a real person, so I got to show more of my acting range.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Great
  • Real
  • Character

• Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Long
  • Dying

• You never get away from that thing in your hometown that it has over you. You don't outgrow where you come from.

  

  Brian Fallon

• If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footballer or an actor,' I'd have said: 'Well, can't I be a footballing actor?'

  

  Ian McShane
  • Actor
  • Choice
  • Footballer

• We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.

  

  Wendy Beckett
  • Great
  • Defense
  • Prepared