Elsie de Wolfe Quotes

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

Elsie de Wolfe

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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

• Saying you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's awesome, and it's out of your control, and it's not a career path.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Up
  • Career
  • Control

• 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

• When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.

  

  Randy Pausch

• 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

• I wouldn't blow my head off. I'd overdose or do something that didn't hurt. But I wouldn't do that to the children. A comedian who committed suicide in the Sixties left a note saying, 'Too many things went wrong too often.' I often think about that.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Children
  • Hurt
  • Blow

• Fear is incomplete knowledge.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Fear
  • Knowledge

• The essential is to cease being free and to obey, in repentance, a greater rogue than oneself. When we are all guilty, that will be democracy.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Free
  • Democracy
  • Guilty

• 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

• Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Light
  • Mountain
  • Climb

• I don't have a lot of shame. That doesn't mean I can't feel bad about the way someone reacts to me or about something I read about myself online. But I don't have a lot of guilt, no. I've always been this way. I'm missing a chip.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Bad
  • Missing

• 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

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

  

  Elsie de Wolfe
  • Light
  • Air
  • Room