Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

They say gravity is the centre of attraction ; I rather think that noise is. Nothing so soon assembles the inhabitants of a house as a loud and sudden noise : …

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• The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Say
  • Three

• People take things so seriously.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • People
  • Things
  • Seriously

• A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Heart
  • Free
  • Freedom

• I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • You
  • Give

• The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Year
  • Modern
  • Israel

• They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Want
  • Japanese
  • Planes

• 'Heroine' is about a declining and imbalanced superstar - a very brave and bold role. I wanted to test whether I could carry a role like this. I have given 200 per cent to this role. She's a very complex character, very aggressive, manipulative and bold, yet she's very fragile.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Character
  • Brave
  • Role

• Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Know
  • Ambition

• Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.

  

  Pat Brown
  • You
  • Smart
  • Figure

• You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • City
  • Best
  • Animal

• Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fact
  • Grandchildren
  • Slaves

• There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Time
  • Men
  • Law

• I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Music
  • Women
  • Dress

• I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Students
  • Class
  • Whatever

• I don't want to be another Jordan, Magic, or Isiah. When my career is over, I want to be able to look in the mirror and say 'I did it my way'.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Career
  • Way
  • Magic

• I like to think of birthdays as celebrating life." "Only losers acknowledge they survived a year and hope they cheat death again.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Hope

• Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • House
  • Reason
  • Blessed

• It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Growing
  • Me
  • Water

• Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • Music
  • Art

• They say gravity is the centre of attraction ; I rather think that noise is. Nothing so soon assembles the inhabitants of a house as a loud and sudden noise : …

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • House