Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (Taj Mahal) Quotes

So grand a structure cannot be purely and simply a tomb.

Henry Saint Clair Fredericks

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• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • People
  • Want
  • Question

• Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Job
  • You
  • Audience

• I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Girl
  • Weird
  • Beach

• Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Talent
  • Motivated

• I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

  

  Zach Braff
  • School
  • Learn
  • Movies

• When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility

• I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Problem
  • Answer
  • Principle

• You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • You
  • Crazy
  • Impossible

• Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Nature
  • Garden

• I was nervous about meeting Charlotte Rampling, as she's a proper legend, but she is just so sweet.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • She
  • Sweet
  • Legend

• The idea of the Nation is one of the most powerful anaesthetics that Man has invented. Under the influence of its fumes the whole people can carry out its systematic programme of the most virulent self-seeking without being in the least aware of its moral perversion,-in fact feeling dangerously resentful if it is pointed out.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Powerful

• Our ways go wide and I know not whither, But my song will search through the worlds for you, Till the Seven Seas waste and the Seven Stars wither, And the dream of the heart comes true.I am out to the roads and the long, long questing, On dark tides driven, on great winds blown: I pass the runs of the world, unresting, I sail to the unknown.

  

  Edwin Markham
  • World
  • Great
  • Long

• You know what I like about San Francisco? The women are beautiful, fashionable and smart. San Francisco is one of the only cities I like to visit. I love New York and Chicago - I studied there, and L.A. has the same people as New York.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • People
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• I'm a homebody times ten.

  

  Charlie Puth

• Even the shows or movies that we know are not going to change the world, I love this. I love 'em. I'm a movie fan. I'm a nerd of any kind. I love a big studio comedy as much as I love the teeniest tiniest of indie. I'm not a snob in that way. I really do like a big, big studio comedy.

  

  Kathryn Hahn
  • World
  • Movie
  • Comedy

• Nell: Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.Nagg: Oh?Nell: Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • World
  • Funny
  • Beginning

• All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Youth

• I'm no atheist - I'm lazy. I really do like hassle-free Sunday mornings. I have a problem with organized religion, so I've simply opted out. Live and let live, I figure.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Live
  • Free
  • Sunday

• I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.

  

  Bijou Phillips

• So grand a structure cannot be purely and simply a tomb.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks