Eleanor Perenyi Quotes

A garden is a private world or it is nothing.

Eleanor Perenyi

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• When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Small

• You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Love
  • Want
  • Everyday

• The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Art
  • Always
  • Theatre

• Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Job
  • Cricket
  • Committee

• If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Think
  • Free
  • Small

• I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Feeling
  • Brain
  • Dominant

• I've stated that it's possible the only reason I'm in show business is that I have such a strange, particular head of hair. That, and I can grow a red beard.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Business
  • Hair
  • Red

• I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Farm

• I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Reality
  • Really
  • Pragmatic

• Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarreling?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Different
  • Long

• Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.

  

  Adrienne Rich
  • Women
  • History
  • Political

• Given the historical power differential between blacks and whites, blacks are required to be attentive to the way their white counterparts see themselves in relation to people of color if they want to survive and even thrive.

  

  James A. Forbes
  • People
  • Power
  • Color

• No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Up
  • Political
  • Animal

• I probably do 10 to 12 Snapchats a day. Spending time with my family or my chef, my workouts, my outfits, or any events I'm attending. Playing music in the car is a big one for me. Dancing sometimes. Or asking people, 'How's business?'

  

  Antonio Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I like to act because I can forget about everything else.

  

  David Morrissey

• With 'The A-Team,' it was like, 'Alright, I'm going to do a big popcorn movie and see how that feels.'

  

  Joe Carnahan
  • Movie
  • Team

• I see little girls at my meet-and-greets who are like, 'Kelsea! It's my first concert and I came to see you.' And I'm thinking, 'I don't want to post anything online that your mom would be mad at me for, because you're important to me.'

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Mom

• The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Up
  • Time

• When we are weak, then are we strong. When most empty of self, we are most full of God.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • God
  • Strong
  • Weak

• The Olympics are very proprietary about letting others promote and market what's going on, so we shut down for 17 days, and they don't let us do a whole lot in return for giving our players to them. We don't get compensated, and we've never looked for compensation.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Giving
  • Down
  • Days

• I'm not sure yet what my higher mission is, but I have a feeling it might be great. Before, I thought my mission was death, but now my mission is life.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Life
  • Great
  • Death

• The fact that perfume is so close to emotion, that's why I really love it. It's such a good connection between people. When you fall in love with somebody, smell is very important. It could be your memory of the person - it's touching. And it's also playful, because sometimes you choose a different perfume every day depending on your mood. I like to help with that. I like to give a little joy to people.

  

  Thierry Mugler
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe that people entirely devoid of imagination never can be really good gardeners. To be content with the present, and not striving about the future, is fatal.

  

  Alice Morse Earle
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• A garden is a private world or it is nothing.

  

  Eleanor Perenyi
  • Garden
  • Private Worlds