Edmund de Waal Quotes
The vitrines exist so that you can see objects, but not touch them: they frame things, suspend them, tantalise through distance.Edmund de Waal
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
Caity Lotz -
I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
I like 'Ab Fab;' I love the crazy stuff they wear. That's my favourite! I love 'Ab Fab.'
Iggy Azalea -
If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
Damien Chazelle -
As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
Karen Kingsbury -
When young women get called bossy, it's often because they're trying to exercise power without status. It's not a problem that they're being dominant; the backlash arises because they're overstepping their status.
Adam Grant
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I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.
Gary Shteyngart -
I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.
Faith Hill -
When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
Tadao Ando -
...when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as 'a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows', he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.
Randall Jarrell -
Auch das gesteigertste psychologische Verstehen ist kein liebendes Verstehen.
Karl Jaspers -
'I am not very clever about Americanisms - and I understand they change very quickly.'
Agatha Christie
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I won't ever get on stage at a comedy club when people know about it.
John Mayer -
Why have your eyes gone into their own room?
Anne Sexton -
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
James Whitcomb Riley -
As a leader, you get a pat on the back when you make a hard choice.
Mark Rylance -
I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I'm not.
Phil Klay -
If you're proud of something, and if you're proud of your work at the end of the day, the experience, walking away, you can feel good about it; that's what you have to focus on.
Dylan O'Brien
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This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet Neptune, we may employ it, in its turn, for the discovery of the one following it in its order of distances from the Sun. Thus, at least, we should unhappily soon fall among bodies invisible by reason of their immense distance, but whose orbits might yet be traced in a succession of ages, with the greatest exactness, by the theory of Secular Inequalities.
Urbain Le Verrier -
The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.
R. C. Sproul -
Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.
Gagan Narang -
Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
J. C. Ryle -
It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.
Philip James Bailey -
The vitrines exist so that you can see objects, but not touch them: they frame things, suspend them, tantalise through distance.
Edmund de Waal