Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes
There must be some deep-rooted anti-social principle in every man's nature, so dearly does he love aught that separates him from his kind ; or is it but one of the many shapes taken by that mental kaleidoscope, vanity, the varying and the glittering, the desire of distinction, sinking into that of notice?
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
-
I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn't grab it in the way I would now.
-
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
-
I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
-
There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
-
Who said that being Latino is to be a stereotype? Characters are stereotypes when making plans or without shades. I do not believe in the picture or model established in the movies.
-
I was afraid of Korean food when I moved to L.A., let alone sushi. I remember thinking either sink or swim. Living here in Studio City, Ventura Blvd. is the Mecca of sushi restaurants. What you thought was so exotic is just run of the mill.
-
Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
-
She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
-
'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
-
Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.
-
Proust is a huge author for me.
-
If you want to be happy, make others happy!
-
We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
-
People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
-
It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
-
A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
-
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
-
Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
-
If you're going to compare a middle-income black kid with a middle- income white kid, and, say, you control for family background, family education, and family income, and if this middle-income black kid doesn't score as well as the white kid on the test, then I say, look, you haven't taken into consideration the cumulative effect of living in a segregated neighborhood and going to a de facto segregated school. You're denying a position at Harvard or some other place to a kid that really could make it. That's why I support affirmative action that's based on both class and race.
-
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
-
Fruit forced is never half so sweet / As that comes quite in season.
-
There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important.
-
There must be some deep-rooted anti-social principle in every man's nature, so dearly does he love aught that separates him from his kind ; or is it but one of the many shapes taken by that mental kaleidoscope, vanity, the varying and the glittering, the desire of distinction, sinking into that of notice?
