Gerald of Wales Quotes

For human nature is so made that only what is unusual and infrequent excites wonder or is regarded as of value. We make no wonder of the rising and the setting of the sun which we see every day; and yet there is nothing in the universe more beautiful, or worthy of wonder. When, however, an eclipse of the sun takes place, everyone is amazed - because it happens rarely.

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• Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Strong
  • Mom
  • Audience

• I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Literature
  • Missing
  • Japanese

• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Man
  • Belief
  • Equality

• The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Time
  • Man
  • Pain

• I learned a lot from the various artists I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do it, or you see them doing something the way you don't want to do it.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Want
  • Doing
  • See

• Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Like
  • Acting
  • Favourite

• To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Death
  • Me

• I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Actor

• People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Will
  • Follow
  • Opening

• People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Life
  • Art

• Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Good
  • Reading
  • Religious

• In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Child
  • Situation
  • Where

• A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Feelings
  • Gentleman

• When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Wise
  • Chinese

• The forces of division have begun to raise their ugly head again … It reminds me: We've got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country. A lot of pent-up anger and mistrust and bitterness. This country wants to move beyond these kinds of things.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Country
  • History

• The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Mind
  • Church

• I did my best, it wasn't much I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Truth
  • Song
  • Fool

• Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing
  • Ocean

• If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature.

  

  Clare Balding
  • Nature
  • Horse
  • Mirror

• I don't like reality TV. I don't want to look down on people.

  

  John Waters
  • People
  • Reality

• For human nature is so made that only what is unusual and infrequent excites wonder or is regarded as of value. We make no wonder of the rising and the setting of the sun which we see every day; and yet there is nothing in the universe more beautiful, or worthy of wonder. When, however, an eclipse of the sun takes place, everyone is amazed - because it happens rarely.

  

  Gerald of Wales
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Wonder