Edith Hall Quotes

Politicians are scrutinized for what they have done wrong, but rarely for what they have not done to improve the situation of the people they are.

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• All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Up
  • Eye
  • Information

• I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Crazy
  • Speak
  • Voice

• Golf is played with the arms.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Golf
  • Played
  • Arms

• You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Movie
  • Way
  • Choose

• If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Married

• It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Me
  • Place
  • Heard

• We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
  • Start
  • Looking

• I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Start

• It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Done
  • Funny
  • Me

• Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Hurt

• Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • May
  • Business

• 'Watchmen' is like the music you feel is written just for you. 'That's my song, no one else gets that but me.' That's why the fan base is so rabid, because they feel personal about it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Fan

• I never had high expectations going into Hollywood. I went there just to work.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Work
  • High
  • Expectations

• I'm extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be door No. 2. It's still hard for me to be away from home much, and I have to make sure I get lots of time alone in my room when I'm touring.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Home
  • Alone

• We had already planned my wedding when my brother passed away in 2012. When you're grieving, you don't necessarily want to think about something like that, but my brother told me that he wanted me to, so we went ahead and did it.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • Think
  • Brother
  • Wedding

• I think I'm a million different faces.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Different
  • Think
  • Million

• Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Government
  • Politics

• Disparage no book, for it is also a part of the world.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • World
  • Book

• We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Situation
  • Europe
  • Currency

• If you find a solution with the Cube, it doesn't mean you find everything. It's only a starting point. You can work on and find something else: you can improve your solution, you can make it shorter, you can go deeper and deeper and collect knowledge and many other things.

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Work
  • Knowledge
  • Solution

• Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the whole scene a scene of woe, are an essential ingredient in tragedy and a chief source of the tragic emotions, and especially of pity. But the proportions of this ingredient, and the direction taken by tragic pity, will naturally vary greatly.

  

  Andrew Cecil Bradley
  • Suffering
  • Hero
  • Emotions

• Politicians are scrutinized for what they have done wrong, but rarely for what they have not done to improve the situation of the people they are.

  

  Edith Hall
  • Situation
  • Politicians
  • Improve