Edward John Trelawny Quotes

At last, giving me the boat's sail for a bed, he stretched himself out on the jagged rocks, and slept soundly as the unsanctified in a comfortable pew of a church; --I wish the benches were softer, and the cushions higher, as then more people might be tempted to take a nap; it is my only reason for never going.

Edward John Trelawny

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• When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Friends
  • Common
  • Fast

• I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Remember
  • America
  • Horse

• You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Money
  • Perception
  • Media

• Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Green
  • Favorite
  • Colors

• The martyrologies are catalogues in which are to be found the names of the saints with the days and places of their deaths and, generally, with the distinctive character of their sanctity and with an historic summary of their lives.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Character
  • Names
  • Places

• No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Human
  • Library
  • Vanity

• How about a good comedy? 'Raising Arizona.' Remains the funniest movie I've ever seen in my life.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • Life
  • Good
  • Movie

• To drive though the streets of Manhattan to sign a record deal was like a movie. It was crazy - pretty hard to put into words.

  

  James Bay
  • Movie
  • Pretty
  • Words

• I do believe that Russia did and will continue to try and manipulate Americans' perspective on a whole variety of issues.

  

  Kirstjen Nielsen
  • Believe
  • Perspective

• I can be whoever I want. I can feel however I want.

  

  Brie Larson

• In turn, more physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices, moving to other states, or simply not providing care.

  

  Jim Ryun
  • Health
  • Moving

• There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.

  

  Burt Rutan
  • People
  • Time
  • Period

• The Oscars is always the most special event of Awards Season and is the grand finale - there's just something about the atmosphere that makes it magical.

  

  Carly Steel

• Unfortunately, it appeared that she was going to be around when they learned the hard way that interstellar wars of aggression were much easier to lose than to win.

  

  Charles Stross
  • She

• Positive feedbacks, when unchecked, can produce runaways until the deviation from equilibrium is so large that other effects can be abruptly triggered and lead to ruptures and crashes.

  

  Didier Sornette
  • Positive

• You want to know whether I can make a long speech, such as you are in the habit of hearing; but that is not my way.

  

  Plato
  • Long
  • Habit

• I make music as good as possible, but I do reference cultural icons, because I want my music to be a time capsule of 2007.

  

  Kanye West
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• When I think about it, I do start to worry about this whole social media thing. It does make me uncomfortable; kids should be out, living their lives, getting out and enjoying themselves.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Kids
  • Worry
  • Start

• It looks to me like the Republican Party`s in no mood to give them [voters] a reasonable choice with this clown show going on right now from the likes of, well, Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump. What a duo.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Giving
  • Party
  • Choices

• Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • Thought

• How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises?

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Men
  • Character
  • Action

• The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Art
  • Philosophy
  • Reflection

• At last, giving me the boat's sail for a bed, he stretched himself out on the jagged rocks, and slept soundly as the unsanctified in a comfortable pew of a church; --I wish the benches were softer, and the cushions higher, as then more people might be tempted to take a nap; it is my only reason for never going.

  

  Edward John Trelawny
  • Wish
  • Church
  • Reason