Vernon Lee Quotes
Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.Vernon Lee
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.
Larry King -
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
Calvin Coolidge -
Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
Harold Urey -
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
W. Somerset Maugham -
My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
Lasse Hallstrom
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
Malorie Blackman -
My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
J. R. Smith -
The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.
Valerie Jarrett -
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid -
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
Kate Chopin -
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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I have no trouble sleeping.
Dalai Lama -
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
Manuel Puig -
The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
Quentin Crisp -
I experimented and explored ways to find my own niche in Nashville, and I was having trouble with it for a while because stylistically, I didn't feel like I necessarily fit in.
Sam Hunt -
Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
Abraham Clark -
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie
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I can go back to when I was six years old. I was always getting in trouble for dreaming, and the things I got in trouble for dreaming then are the things I'm doing today.
Michael Flatley -
It was the same with Schumacher: the need for the adrenaline rush, to push himself to the limit was always there. So without a Formula One car to race with he went on to do motorcycle racing and other stupid things, and obviously that wasn't enough to keep him happy, so he had a problem to sort out and returning to racing was his answer to the problem.
Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda -
Only in a novel are all things given full play.
D. H. Lawrence -
Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.
Muhammad Ali -
Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.
Vernon Lee