Edgar Alwin Payne Quotes

The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.

Edgar Alwin Payne

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• To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Growing
  • Football
  • Games

• Managers are the most creative people in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • World
  • Creative

• My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

  

  W. E. B. Griffin
  • Military
  • My Own
  • Background

• I like to get a salad or fruit in me - just some good energy food - and then a plate a pasta with a breast of chicken.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Good
  • Energy
  • Me

• There are moderates in Israel. There are moderates in Iran, there are moderates in the Republican Party, moderates in the Democratic Party. What we need to do is we need link all of these moderates together and to figure out a way by which this particular coalition can speak to important issues to marginalize the voice of the extremists.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Important
  • Together
  • Party

• The whole system of society tells you what to do.

  

  Barry White
  • Society
  • You
  • Whole

• People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • People
  • Beauty
  • Blessing

• It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Single

• When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it's pure obstinacy that keeps me from reciprocating her passion. As I explain to her that I'm gay, it sounds, even to me, like a silly excuse; I scarcely believe it myself.

  

  Edmund White
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Myself

• If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Help
  • You
  • Got

• The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Quality
  • Literature
  • Start

• One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Work
  • Day
  • Things

• Human nature is not simple and any classification that roughly divides men into good and bad, superior and inferior, slave and free, is and must be ludicrously untrue and universally dangerous as a permanent exhaustive classification.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• I hand him a lyric and get out of his way.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Hand
  • Lyric

• The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Music
  • Words

• Jesus Christ-who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens-can now be eaten in the form of a cracker.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Death
  • Jesus
  • Rose

• Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Science

• As with most physical activity, yoga helps boost your immune system. However, it also stretches and strengthens your body simultaneously, while also balancing your mind and spirit. It benefits the whole human.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Mind
  • Yoga

• Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

  

  Craig Charles

• To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Desire

• I remember, when I was growing up in Baltimore, we'd get on a streetcar and go down to see the Orioles, and for a couple of bucks, you could get a pretty good seat. Kids can't do that anymore. So I think that changes the whole nature of sports.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

• In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Book
  • American
  • Revolution

• The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.

  

  Edgar Alwin Payne
  • Nature
  • Desire
  • Pleasure