Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
It might have been the entrance to some holy place, so strange and solemn was the quiet; and looking from out of its shadows to the brightness shining at the upper end where the sun was flooding the bracken with happy morning radiance, I felt suddenly that my walk had ceased to be a common thing, and that I was going up into the temple of God to pray.Elizabeth von Arnim
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
Zhang Xin -
In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
Rafael Nadal -
My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.
Gabriel Mann -
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Baruch Spinoza -
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
Walter Hagen -
All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
W. C. Fields
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I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
Walter Hill -
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
W. H. Auden -
I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable.
Ira Glass -
In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together.
Immanuel Kant -
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Octavio Paz -
Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.
Jeff Bridges
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Type is your brand.
Bruno Maag -
Immortality... Is that a super power?
Mark Wahlberg -
The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.
Franz Schubert -
I don't get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini.
Martin Freeman -
I was living in upstate New York, in Kingston - small town, no comedy scene except for my friends and I doing these DIY shows and whatnot. And we put together this thing called the 'Altercation Punk Rock Comedy Tour.'
Chris Cubas -
There is still a perception that the way women are isn't necessarily what you need for the powerhouse start-ups.
Anita Borg
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The first time I ever heard professional actors delivering lines that I wrote was completely surreal and was just a gigantic moment in my life. It was just a little bit mind-blowing and completely strange to have something that had been on my computer being said out loud.
Andrea Seigel -
Gabby called it 'Congress on Your Corner' - just an updated version of government of and by and for the people.
Barack Obama -
I don't like anything that scares me, and I prefer to face it head on and get over it. Anyone who says they're not scared is a fool, a liar or both. I just don't want that fear in my stomach to be part of my life, so I work to eliminate it.
Anderson Cooper -
To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.
Marianne Williamson -
His Holiness Pope John Paul II was a determined and deeply spiritual minded person for whom I had great respect and admiration. His experience in Poland, then a communist country, and my own difficulties with communists, gave us an immediate common ground
Dalai Lama -
It might have been the entrance to some holy place, so strange and solemn was the quiet; and looking from out of its shadows to the brightness shining at the upper end where the sun was flooding the bracken with happy morning radiance, I felt suddenly that my walk had ceased to be a common thing, and that I was going up into the temple of God to pray.
Elizabeth von Arnim