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

• 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

• 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

• Growing up, I was surrounded by music by the Stones, Carole King, and the Beach Boys. I didn't know who Michael Jackson was till I was about 13.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

  

  Maya Angelou

• The death of Christ made it possible for God to accept sinful man, and that he has, in fact, done so. Consequently, whatever separation there is between man and the benefits of God's grace is subjective in nature and exists only in man's mind and unregenerate spirit. The message man needs to hear then, is not that he simply has a suggested opportunity for salvation, but that through Christ he has, in fact, already been redeemed to God and that he may enjoy the blessing that are already his through Christ

  

  Carlton Pearson
  • Mind
  • Opportunity
  • Spirit

• What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Trying
  • Culture
  • Situation

• Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Real
  • Fool
  • Genius

• The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Fun
  • Eyes

• I was a coin collector.I didn't know I was nerdy at the time until I felt my 16-D Mercury Dime that was in uncirculated condition might be a panty dropper, and it turned out not to be. Then I stumbled into skateboarding, which kind of was cooler. But I wasn't aware of what was cool. My dad wasn't around so he couldn't shake me and say, 'Drop the coin collecting bit. It's not where you want to go.' So, that and the spelling bee and the chess, I think I had it figured out for myself.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Dad

• 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