George Stapledon Quotes

The spirit of a country, if it is to be true to itself, needs continually to draw great breaths of inspiration from the simple realities of the country; from the smell of its soil, the pattern of its fields, the beauty of its scenery and from the men and women who dwell and toil in the rural areas.

George Stapledon

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• My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.

  

  K. Flay
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Dad

• When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.

  

  Fannie Farmer
  • Time
  • Work
  • Live

• So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • People
  • Beauty
  • Charm

• I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Work
  • Always

• We've always believed in our music.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Our

• Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Yourself
  • Healing
  • Moving On

• Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Why
  • Remember

• I am the best. There is nobody better than me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Best
  • Better

• Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Win
  • Tennis

• Training is vital. You need to know the technical aspects of acting, just in case someone hands you a monologue and simply says, 'Cry here and laugh here.' You have to be able to make sense of it all.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • Training
  • Hands
  • Laugh

• In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

  

  Larry Niven
  • May
  • Society
  • Hindsight

• There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.

  

  Edward Snowden
  • American
  • History
  • Law

• Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Party

• For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me!

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Free
  • You
  • Now

• You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

  

  Jimmy Dean
  • Luck

• Try to see the joyful side of life. One must see the pain of life with clear eyes, and help all he can; but there is also lots of joy, and on should see that, too.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Life
  • Side
  • Joyful

• It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.

  

  Kim Elizabeth
  • World
  • Writing
  • Dark

• The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Art
  • Power
  • Value

• The spirit of a country, if it is to be true to itself, needs continually to draw great breaths of inspiration from the simple realities of the country; from the smell of its soil, the pattern of its fields, the beauty of its scenery and from the men and women who dwell and toil in the rural areas.

  

  George Stapledon
  • Country
  • Spirit
  • Inspiration