Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow Quotes

Common sense is in spite of, not because of age.

Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

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• There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Money
  • Leaving
  • Theater

• But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Job
  • Career
  • Feeling

• When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Listening

• There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Being
  • Thing

• If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Change
  • Better

• I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Myself

• The more gays and lesbians come out - the more people realize that they have a friend who's gay, which they may not have known before, and they realize this person has the same aspirations and desires and need to be committed and to be part of a community - then they become more accepting.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • May
  • Community

• I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. 'Fly Me to the Moon' was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. I'm the only one.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Moon
  • Fly

• Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Adventure

• We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness 'to act alone,' its willingness to be everybody's enemy.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Hope
  • Alone
  • Enemy

• The history of human civilisation is a history of mutual borrowings.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • History

• When ISIS and al Qaeda have attacked or plotted attacks in the West in the past decade or so, they have invariably used hydrogen peroxide-based bombs because acquiring military-grade explosives or dynamite is nearly impossible for would-be terrorists in Western countries.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Past
  • Military

• The guy who enters pro sports hasn't run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it's been nothing but roses.

  

  Jim Finks
  • Guy
  • Sports

• The participation of our country in the eurozone is a guarantee for the country's monetary stability. It is a driver of financial prosperity.

  

  Lucas Papademos
  • Country
  • Financial

• Steve Zahn and I like to go to dinner, and we love to go to Chef Donald Link's Herb Saint.

  

  Kim Dickens

• I would never lay down a pre-programmed set and perform to a pre-mixed CD; I would never cheat my fans like that.

  

  Avicii

• We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.

  

  Enid Blyton
  • Good
  • Children
  • Done

• Entrepreneurship transparency, I think, is important because there are so many problems that you just have to be real about them. There are so many ways for a startup to die, so the transparency attitude is key.

  

  David Cohen
  • Important
  • Real
  • Die

• 'Brown Girl Dreaming' was a book I had a lot of doubts about - mainly, would this story be meaningful to anyone besides me? My editor, Nancy Paulsen, kept assuring me, but there were moments when I was in a really sad place with the story for so many reasons. It wasn't an easy book to write - emotionally, physically, or creatively.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Book
  • Girl
  • Moments

• I remember feeling all right with myself until age 13. Then, I was getting off the bus one day and this guy called me Miss Piggy. That was the first time I ever really felt like I wasn't okay.

  

  Cheryl James
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Age

• Pluto has a very interesting history, and there is a lot of work that we need to do to understand this very complicated place.

  

  Alan Stern
  • Work
  • History
  • Interesting

• Being a very tall person, I have always felt a kinship with giraffes.

  

  Alexandra Bracken

• I like the movie 'Das Boot,' the German film made in the '80s. I found out it was a series that was made into a film for the U.S.

  

  Courtney Gains
  • Movie
  • German

• Common sense is in spite of, not because of age.

  

  Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
  • Age
  • Common Sense
  • Spite