Elizabeth Knox Quotes

Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had been - sharp, piercing, and snatched, like a breath while swimming in surf.

Elizabeth Knox

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• I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Strange
  • Going
  • Lie

• There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Mind
  • Money
  • Peace

• Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Single
  • Fans
  • Down

• I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Myself
  • Behind
  • Reveal

• I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • People
  • Real
  • Art

• I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • People
  • Help
  • Opportunities

• Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Good
  • Find
  • Good Things

• If you want boots on the ground, and you want them to be our sons and daughters, you got 14 other choices. There will always be a Bush or Clinton for you, if you want to go back to war in Iraq. But the thing is, the first war was a mistake. And I'm not sending our sons and our daughters back to Iraq.

  

  Rand Paul
  • War
  • Mistake
  • Choices

• Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretirt; es kommt aber darauf an, sie zu verändern.1

  

  Karl Marx
  • Die

• I am often asked why I nearly always select old material, fairy tales and legends for my stage works. I do not look upon them as old, but rather as valid material. The time element disappears, and only the spiritual power remains. My entire interest is in the expression of spiritual realities. I write for the theater in order to convey a spiritual attitude.

  

  Carl Orff
  • Time
  • Why
  • Power

• He said that humanity in the main was crass, stupid, boorish and vulgar, and that I could learn at least this much from you.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Humanity
  • Stupid

• Who would expect it so? From darkness light is brought, Life rises out of Death, And Something comes from Naught.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Life
  • Death
  • Light

• Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got. Do you want to be really miserable? You can begin by being discontented.

  

  Benjamin Hoff
  • Happy

• Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Spring

• We now know, without any shred of uncertainty, that billions of rands of public resources have been diverted into the pockets of a few.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa

• I've grown up a little bit. I'm almost 40 years old now. But everyone was introduced to me when I was 18 and I looked like I was 15. I've been around a long time.

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• If I were in severely straitened socio-economic circumstances and had to move to the U.S., I'd probably opt for Athens, GA, or Lawrence, KS. As boho guys usually do, live cheap in the Left Bank of Kansas.

  

  William Gibson
  • Guy
  • Moving
  • Circumstances

• At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Ideas
  • Image
  • Microsoft

• The easier question might be, 'What isn't Alibaba?' The company is only 15 years old, but it has gotten so big over that timeframe that it basically touches every single part of the Chinese economy. I think the simplest comparison to draw is that it is like eBay and Amazon combined.

  

  Kayla Tausche
  • Question
  • Single
  • Chinese

• The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

  

  William Lyon Phelps
  • People
  • World
  • Interesting

• Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had been - sharp, piercing, and snatched, like a breath while swimming in surf.

  

  Elizabeth Knox
  • Happiness
  • Sun
  • Breath