Leonora Carrington Quotes

I never thought of myself as a Surrealist. I didn't think of myself as anything. I try not to. We all have these egos.

Leonora Carrington

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• Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • People
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Want
  • Science
  • Learning

• He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Sports
  • Golf
  • Sound

• A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Bad
  • Me
  • Friend

• Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • You
  • Knowledge
  • Cherish

• I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Want
  • Best
  • Look

• No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.

  

  P. F. Strawson
  • Thought
  • Own
  • Contemporary

• This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

  

  Origen
  • Time
  • World
  • Church

• At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Beginning
  • Week
  • Plan

• I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Important
  • Success
  • Quality

• The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way to achieve the Oregon Business Plan's goal of reducing the number of people living in poverty.

  

  Kate Brown
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Political
  • Child
  • Slavery

• It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Learning
  • Like
  • Baseball

• We haven't seen the turning point yet, but we're sticking to our bottom line, for the environment and the health of the country.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Country
  • Health
  • Environment

• Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Knowledge

• Crying that it's an application bug is like crying over the speed of light: you should deal with reality, not what you wish reality was.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Reality
  • Light
  • Wish

• I know what I want when I start a marathon: to win! But what do you want? Make sure you're clear in advance and don't go out too fast.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Want
  • Winning
  • Marathon

• Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

  

  Eugenio Montale
  • Poetry
  • Images
  • Paints

• I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.

  

  Stuart Symington
  • War
  • Military
  • Diplomacy

• Bill and Larry The Cable Guy walk by a stone that Bill's neighbor had had 1894, his address, carved into it.

  

  Bill Engvall
  • Guy

• I don't know about you, but when they first introduced bottled water, I thought it was so funny, I was like "Bottled water! Haha, they're selling bottled water! ... I guess I'll try it. Ah, this is good, this is more watery than water. Yeah, this has got a water kick to it."

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Water

• I never thought of myself as a Surrealist. I didn't think of myself as anything. I try not to. We all have these egos.

  

  Leonora Carrington