Elspeth Huxley Quotes

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

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• The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • You
  • Understanding
  • Edgy

• I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Work
  • Money
  • Interesting

• I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn't know a lot about music or dancing. When I was in Primary Six, no one would participate in a talent show, so I decided to go on. When the audience applauded me, I felt euphoric, and I started dancing right after that!

  

  Rain
  • Music
  • Child
  • Talent

• Truth is a tendency.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Truth
  • Truth Is
  • Tendency

• You can never be too rich or too thin.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • You
  • Never
  • Rich

• Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Great
  • Small
  • Wisdom

• Before going on 'X Factor' again, I felt like I'd tried everything else.

  

  Fleur East
  • Like
  • Everything
  • Before

• Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Long
  • Character
  • Risk

• I never have had blonde hair. I have never had straight hair. I never wear pink clothes or spray tan and I never wore heels to school.

  

  Carly Chaikin
  • School
  • Hair
  • Pink

• Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Fearless
  • Risks
  • Optimism

• But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • World
  • Music
  • Striving

• Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in your own field. It's a fact. Right? And it never really works out that way.

  

  Alex Ferguson

• Carlos is better. His range of motion improved. He pushed it hard yesterday, but we'll just have to see.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Game
  • Motion
  • Carlos

• Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • True
  • Future

• Before, models had that rock star life and it was all about going to the parties and having that glamorous life, and I think these days, models are more like businesswomen and the whole industry takes it really serious.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • Life
  • Rock
  • Star

• It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, Roman basilicas, and even the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are not the works of single personalities but creations of entire epochs.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Single
  • Achievement
  • Times

• Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Models
  • Millionaire
  • Rare

• ...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don't, you may make a fortune in ten years, but you're not going to be read in twenty years, and that's that.

  

  John Gardner
  • Trying
  • Dream
  • Winning

• On the path that leads to Nowhere I have sometimes found my soul!

  

  Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
  • Soul
  • Path
  • Found

• When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

  

  Rumi
  • Against
  • Dust
  • Blows

• Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

  

  Elspeth Huxley
  • Result
  • Changing
  • Satisfied