Eleanor Clark Quotes

Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.

Eleanor Clark

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• To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Integrity
  • Election
  • Nobody

• I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • She
  • Job
  • House

• You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Life
  • Think
  • Yourself

• I watched a lot of soap operas like 'General Hospital' and 'Days Of Our Lives.' When it came to movies, my parents were quite strict. They would watch 'Flash Dance' but wouldn't let us see the whole film because Jennifer Beals' character was a stripper. It was so funny when I finally saw the whole film. I thought she was a ballerina!

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • She
  • Character
  • Parents

• Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

  

  Frances Perkins
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Trees

• I never trusted good-looking boys.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Trust
  • Never

• To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Movie
  • Mean
  • Moment

• We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Money
  • Business
  • Tree

• My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Time
  • Home
  • Remember

• It's shown and proved that hard work pays off. Make goals, achieve them and replace them with new goals.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Hard Work

• To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Friend

• It is not about money. It is about how you treat the player.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Money
  • You
  • Player

• When I first reviewed the iPad, I wrote that, to succeed, 'It will have to prove that it really can replace the laptop or netbook for enough common tasks, enough of the time, to make it a viable alternative.'

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • Succeed
  • Prove

• Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Time
  • Know
  • Dad

• They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Good
  • Book
  • Page

• Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is one of the tactics used in that War.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • War
  • Ideas
  • Terrorism

• I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Progress
  • Name
  • Determined

• I want to win medals for myself.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Win

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Time
  • School
  • Love

• You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Play
  • Yourself

• So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Long
  • Man
  • Impossible

• Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.

  

  Eleanor Clark
  • Impossible
  • Century
  • Turns