Elsie de Wolfe Quotes

Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room.

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• When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Long
  • Night
  • Ride

• Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.

  

  Flume
  • Me
  • Universe
  • Old

• I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Life
  • Work
  • Interesting

• When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Society
  • Very
  • Dignity

• Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.

  

  Jack Carroll
  • Business
  • Care
  • Greatest

• Winning is no longer just the outcome. It's part of the process.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Winning
  • Process
  • Just

• I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's office. I never built or ran a department. So I was on this journey, and when the time came to make a decision, I was just going with my gut.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Time
  • Work
  • Business

• I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Work
  • Music
  • Together

• Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Political
  • Religious

• I inherited honesty and self-discipline from my father; from my mother, I inherited faith in goodness and deep kindness as did my three brothers and sisters.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Faith

• For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Small

• Now that I have found someone I'm feeling more alone Than I ever have before.

  

  Ben Folds
  • Feeling
  • Alone

• Ever since 'The Apprentice,' my life has gotten so much busier.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Life

• If you're a better scorer than me, I'll put you down on the block; you score. I don't care. I can do other things.

  

  David Robinson The Cars

• Sometimes I get in writing moods and I want to write a song every couple of days. Then sometimes I may not write a song for three weeks. It's just according to how it's hitting me at the time.

  

  Ashton Shepherd
  • Time
  • Writing
  • May

• When 1970s feminism hit the United States, women demanded the right to natural childbirth and to have their husband or another support person in the delivery room. My mother gave birth to me during this time.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Time
  • Women
  • Mother

• Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

  

  Marlene Dietrich
  • She
  • Breakfast

• To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.

  

  Pauline Hanson
  • People
  • Strong
  • Peace

• If you don't write about what you know, you're like a barrister and have to do a frightful amount of research for each case.

  

  Ngaio Marsh

• The kitchen is a sacred space.

  

  Marc Forgione
  • Space
  • Kitchen

• That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Gift
  • Prevent
  • Be Aware

• I was a dancer, and it's not really cool for a boy to dance, so it was inspiring to see a movie like 'Footloose' where a guy is dancing masculine and had a proper reason behind it. It made me feel cool, and when these kids would make fun of me, I'd be like, 'Oh, didn't you see 'Footloose,' man?'

  

  Kenny Wormald
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Fun

• I'm so vain, all I could think was I should have stopped at 'American Pie.'

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • American

• Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room.

  

  Elsie de Wolfe
  • Light
  • Air
  • Room