George Shinn Quotes

I'd rather have a full house at a medium price than half-full at a high price.

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• Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Money
  • Parents

• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Finger

• It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Street

• The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • House
  • Day
  • Road

• If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Worry

• I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Great
  • Children

• I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Country
  • Blue
  • Grass

• There's no one who has been living for centuries.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Living
  • Been
  • Centuries

• I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Great
  • Science
  • Space

• If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Proud
  • Beauty
  • Diversity

• Earlier, looking lighter or slimmer never mattered to me. Frankly, I didn't care. I had more important things to do. But when I figured that it's not that hard, and I have the time, passion and patience to take it up, I jumped onto the health-wagon. I started working out.

  

  Kajol
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• With 'The Vampire Diaries,' it's not just a tease, especially with the relationships. You're not sitting there going, 'God, I wish they'd get it over with and kiss!' There's no teasing, they jump right into the action.

  

  Candice Accola
  • God
  • Action
  • Wish

• I say that religion isn’t about believing things. It’s ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

  

  Karen Armstrong

• A king’s son has nothing but inferiors, each one a potential assassin.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Son
  • King

• The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Truth
  • Faith
  • Moving

• Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads by choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the subtle disciplines

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Competition

• At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• 'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Reality

• When you feel like a musician you listen to is like you, then they don't feel so far away, and whatever you want to get to isn't so far away.

  

  Little Simz

• Husker nation!! Can you feel it!

  

  Apathy Army of the Pharaohs
  • Feel
  • Nation
  • Husker

• One of my biggest fears is thinking that there are people in my house when I'm home alone.

  

  Jessica Parker Kennedy
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Home

• If you were smart enough to read the bio you might have 1 follower detective.

  

  Beetlejuice
  • Smart
  • Read
  • Have

• I'd rather have a full house at a medium price than half-full at a high price.

  

  George Shinn
  • House
  • Price
  • Have