Beatrix Potter Quotes
I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...Beatrix Potter
Quotes to Explore
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
Viggo Mortensen -
I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
Yossi Sarid -
Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
Zainab Salbi -
Incommensurables cannot be compared.
Garrett Hardin -
Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.
Gary North -
My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
Barbara Bush
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
Jackie Collins -
I really don't believe in magic.
Joanne Rowling -
Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
Lana Turner -
I'm not a babysitter.
Adam Lambert -
I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
Laura Harrier -
The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
Gary Zukav
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
L'Wren Scott -
I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
Maggie Smith -
Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
Mara Liasson -
Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel -
My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.
Brian Boitano -
Sometimes when you've reached a peak experience, you look for other peak experiences... I'd always been interested in art. I was looking for other experiences outside of sports. Art was a form of expression I had always liked a great deal.
Bob Beamon -
I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.
Steven Levitan -
Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
Naveen Jain -
That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies.
Arthur Laurents -
I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...
Beatrix Potter