Leigh Hunt Quotes

Stolen sweets are always sweeter,Stolen kisses much completer,Stolen looks are nice in chapels,Stolen, stolen, be your apples.

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• Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Job
  • Stop
  • Learning

• My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Doing

• 'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Man
  • Idea
  • Mad

• It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • World
  • Home
  • Injustice

• Music is about the performance.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Music
  • Performance
  • About

• I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!

  

  Kat Graham
  • Want
  • Cooking
  • Arts

• It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

  

  E. B. White
  • Man
  • Planet
  • Club

• For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • World
  • Women
  • Attitude

• The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Mind
  • Best
  • Body

• Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Great
  • Sad
  • Coffee

• I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Live
  • True
  • Win

• Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Development
  • Class
  • West

• I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it's for a part that you would really love to play.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Cool

• At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Night

• I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Up
  • City
  • Attitude

• I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Should
  • Sexiness

• My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Think
  • First
  • Very

• When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The humped bladderwort has yellow, snapdragon-like flowers, and it's actually carnivorous, capable of trapping and eating not just insects but even tadpoles and tiny fish.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Eating
  • Flowers
  • Fish

• I try to be - well, not holy - but my whole family is very religious, and I want to be like that, too. So I try my hardest to be more in touch with the Lord.

  

  Nathan Gamble
  • Family
  • Want
  • Religious

• Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Internet
  • Champion
  • Senate

• Well, the right-wing policy with regard to Israel - the people who don't want to deal with Arafat, who don't want a Palestinian state - the whole sort of right-wing view is consistent with the view toward Iraq. It's the same policy and the same people.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • People

• As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Long
  • Family
  • Money

• Stolen sweets are always sweeter,Stolen kisses much completer,Stolen looks are nice in chapels,Stolen, stolen, be your apples.

  

  Leigh Hunt
  • Nice