Elizabeth Knox Quotes

I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I'd be left alone to read

Elizabeth Knox

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• Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Dance

• Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Trust
  • Just

• After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Death
  • Fear

• I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Faith

• In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Life
  • Women
  • Man

• I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Magic

• There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Proud

• Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • True
  • Religious

• I had my freedom, and I had my comfortable life, but I couldn't accept the fact that the politicians were making it increasingly difficult for my kids and millions of others to achieve their dreams as I had achieved mine. So, in 2012, I ran for president.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Freedom

• What you learn from working with other performers and musicians is invaluable, really, and can only help you grow. I mean, if you spend your whole life focusing on yourself, you're not really learning much.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Life
  • Help
  • Learning

• If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Trying

• What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Matters

• Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • People
  • Life
  • Past

• In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Long
  • Alone
  • Party

• As a leader, I believe it's important to have an open door with your staff. Those who want to learn and to grow in their careers will walk through that door and into your life. I encourage people to come and seek me out at 'Frontline' with good ideas, curiosity, and drive.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Life
  • Good
  • Good Life

• I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Life
  • Character
  • Myself

• Sharing instructions about how to perform better for others is very different than sharing feelings about life experiences that make us happy or sad.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Different
  • Happy

• In 'Dublinesque', Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas inverts the terms of Joyce's 'Ulysses' and tells the story of a man who, after living a hyperkinetic life like those of Odysseus and Leopold Bloom, resolves to never leave his room again and to reduce his mental activity to a minimum.

  

  Alvaro Enrigue
  • Life
  • Spanish

• Your life only gets better when you get better.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • inspirational
  • Get Better

• A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.

  

  Irma S. Rombauer
  • Death
  • Honored
  • Pig

• Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

  

  Jalal Talabani

• I want to fire the whole lot. Instantly. Out, out. No 'District' commands, no golden bowlers, nothing. Out … If I could, I'd do what Stalin did to Tukhachevsky.

  

  Alan Clark Dire Straits
  • Fire

• I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I'd be left alone to read

  

  Elizabeth Knox
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Plan