Katherine Cecil Thurston Quotes

No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

Katherine Cecil Thurston

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• A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Action
  • Party
  • Club

• Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Long
  • Honor
  • Where

• I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Know
  • Memory
  • Survival

• If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Me
  • Guitar
  • Huge

• In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Great
  • Country
  • Myself

• Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song, and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Nature

• When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.

  

  Alan Cheuse
  • Country
  • Family
  • She

• Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so private, the audience doesn't know what they're doing.

  

  Edward Herrmann
  • Eyes

• To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Passion

• It just flat-out sucks losing. It really - it doesn't feel good.

  

  Jason Day
  • Good

• If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.

  

  Chris Evans

• Acting is just such an incredible art form.

  

  Jennifer Lien
  • Art

• We left Germany when I was 11.

  

  Emayatzy Corinealdi

• It is foolishly thought by some that democratical constitutions will not, cannot, last; that the States will quarrel with each other; that a king, or at least a nobility, are indispensable for the prosperity of a nation.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette
  • King

• I am the youngest of three boys, and I was super-informed by what the older ones were into.

  

  Kyle Mooney

• I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

  

  Anton Yelchin
  • Different
  • Interesting

• Here's what my CV usually does not say: I was trained as a teacher. My first job lasted less than 60 days. I was an assistant professor at a good college at Delhi University, but I found it very political, very suffocating. At the age of 23, you're not very tolerant of those things.

  

  Amit Bhatia
  • Good
  • Job
  • Age

• A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

  

  Jean Anouilh
  • Good

• Simplicity is the touchstone in finding new physical laws. … If it's elegant, then it's a rough rule of thumb: you're on the right track.

  

  Kip Thorne
  • Simplicity

• A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended is its area of applicability.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Simplicity
  • Theory
  • Area

• I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world.

  

  George Voinovich
  • World
  • Weapons
  • Threaten

• I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Hope
  • Wish
  • Sex

• I love trade. I love trade. First, it's economic freedom. It's the freedom to buy, sell, and compete with as little government interference as possible. Secondly, it's a jobs issue.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Freedom

• No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

  

  Katherine Cecil Thurston
  • Simplicity
  • Weapons
  • Brevity