Densey Clyne Quotes

Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.

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• Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Funny
  • Know
  • Talking

• I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Day
  • Period
  • Modern

• There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Like
  • Step
  • Napoleon

• In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Movie

• Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Falling

• When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • People
  • Future
  • Lost

• Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I tend to stay away from the comics.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Away
  • Stay
  • Tend

• I've always had a man's mindset, and that's why I mostly have men friends, and that's why I've been around so many men. I've always been a tomboy. And any man that knows me will tell you I'm not a girly girl.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Men
  • Why
  • Friends

• I know about raising money.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Money
  • Know
  • Raising

• It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Trying
  • Character
  • America

• Unlike the messier MySpace, Facebook has a cleaner and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me, 'utilitarian.' I would call it useful and more relevant than other competitors, and a white-label version would likely be a hit.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Me
  • Useful
  • Facebook

• I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Want
  • Identity
  • Face

• Everything you do in a patient's room, after he is 'put up' for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk - you secure him a bad night.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Night

• Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Today

• When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Me
  • Loved

• The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Women
  • Deal
  • Workforce

• I am forever living in my childhood.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Childhood
  • Living

• I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Research
  • Scene
  • Through

• Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, your head like the golden rod, and we will go sailing away from here to the beautiful Land Of Nod.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Beautiful
  • Sailing
  • Dear

• I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn't just that I don't believe in God and, naturally, I hope that I'm right in my belief. It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • People
  • Believe
  • Religious

• I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.

  

  Charlotte Erickson
  • Lost
  • Myself
  • Loved

• Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.

  

  Densey Clyne
  • Through
  • Insomnia
  • Asleep