Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (Taj Mahal) Quotes

If the light is right, you can squint at the Taj and see the specter of its black twin on the other side of the Yamuna - and it is then that you truly marvel not just at the Taj, but at the wonder of what might have been.

Henry Saint Clair Fredericks

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• I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Enough
  • Train
  • Seen

• The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Book
  • Success

• I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • School
  • Kids
  • Help

• I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Nice

• You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • You
  • Brain
  • Silver

• I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Art
  • History
  • Painting

• People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Money
  • Government

• I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Up
  • City
  • Second

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Life
  • Work
  • Interesting

• The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Think
  • Politics

• I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Drive

• Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Together
  • Know
  • Homework

• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Growth
  • Ambition
  • Proceeds

• Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Believe
  • Game
  • Hockey

• Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • People
  • Television
  • Lucky

• Most black families went from the South to the city. My family went from the South to the city to the suburbs because they wanted their children to have the realization of the suburban lifestyle. What does it mean that that doesn't actually protect you?

  

  Yance Ford
  • Children
  • Family
  • Black

• I have never been afraid to go a bit out there with what I am wearing on film. I tend to be a bit more conservative in real life, with mountains of black in my closet.

  

  Jane Badler
  • Life
  • Real
  • Black

• The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Wonder
  • Snowflake
  • Meteorologists

• I wonder why anyone would hesitate to be generous with their writing. I mean, if you really want to make a living, go to Wall Street and trade oil futures ... We're writers. We're doing something that is inherently a generous act. We're exposing ourselves to the muse and to the things that frighten us. Why do that if you're not willing to be generous? And paradoxically, almost ironically, it turns out that the more generous you are, the more money you make. But that's secondary. For me, the privilege of being generous is why I get to do this.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Writing
  • Wonder
  • Trade

• When people say perhaps it’s cause they’re lying. Either they don’t believe the thing they’re saying, or they do believe it only they don’t want to admit they do.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Believe

• If the light is right, you can squint at the Taj and see the specter of its black twin on the other side of the Yamuna - and it is then that you truly marvel not just at the Taj, but at the wonder of what might have been.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Black
  • Light
  • Wonder