Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

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• I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Guy
  • Cold
  • Battle

• I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Always
  • System
  • Driven

• Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Development
  • Environmental

• There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • You

• To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Growing
  • Football
  • Games

• I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mistakes
  • Very
  • Scale

• I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • Work
  • Movies
  • Normal

• The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • War
  • Worst
  • Objectives

• I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Mom
  • Cool
  • Thought

• Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Think

• Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Know
  • Dark
  • Sometimes

• As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Day
  • Rest

• Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Luxury

• North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • World
  • Country
  • Internet

• Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Fun
  • Serious
  • Having Fun

• Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Great
  • Small

• This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Home
  • Together
  • Earth

• At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • First
  • Root
  • Then

• The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Women
  • History
  • Affirmation

• If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Men
  • Fool
  • Modesty

• The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.

  

  Joshua Lederberg
  • Men
  • Planets
  • Viruses

• One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Real
  • Art
  • Free

• Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Earth