Gerald Brenan Quotes

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.

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• If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed – I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Men
  • Fun
  • Girlfriend

• A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Said
  • Rebel

• There is no sin except stupidity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Sin
  • Stupidity
  • Except

• Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Success
  • Health
  • Grow

• This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Quality
  • Easy

• We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Work
  • Women
  • Together

• Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Never
  • Doing

• I think things can surprise you. I mean, I loved Instagram from the minute it started, but I think it surprised a lot of people how quickly it got huge.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • People
  • Think
  • Surprise

• China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Most
  • China
  • Cyber

• My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Dad
  • Chance

• When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Comfort

• The number one thing I look for is personality. For me, the personality of someone makes them more and more attractive over time ... and for those with bad personalities, less and less attractive. I look for honesty, intelligence, kindness, and a good work ethic, to name a few.

  

  Manika
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• At the end of the day, you can be physically strong, you can have all the tools out there, but if your mental state isn't good enough, you can't bring yourself to bigger and better things.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Day

• With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Women
  • Show
  • Very

• When it's all said and done, I am secure enough with my manhood to say to the world, 'I am a male actor, and its okay for me to play a gay man.'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Man
  • Play
  • Gay

• I try to stay in decent shape.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Try
  • Shape
  • Decent

• We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • People
  • Idea
  • Point

• So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Why
  • You
  • Write

• We started with pure parliamentary democracy at the Centre and in the States. Now this has been extended to the grassroots, though not in the Gandhian way, but according to the dream of Gandhiji, along that line. We have extended democracy to the grassroots, in the panchayati raj experiment and I think that has given solid support to our parliamentary system. Our parliamentary system could not have survived, without this basic grassroot support. But all these can function only in an atmosphere of social and economic progress and greater equality.

  

  K. R. Narayanan
  • Democracy
  • States
  • Centre

• If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Country
  • Paint
  • Fought

• An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Action
  • Ethical
  • Pragmatic

• I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Culture
  • Singing
  • Sorry

• You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Song
  • Abstain

• When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.

  

  Gerald Brenan
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