Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

Born with them-born with them : all alike ! No pleasure equal to the pleasure of tormenting, to a woman.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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• I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • Family
  • Together

• Actors are a race.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Race

• Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Opportunity
  • Confused

• It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Song
  • You
  • Should

• I don't have kids, but I know that you want them to follow their dreams, while at the same time, you don't want them to be sitting around, hoping that dream is just going to come. I'm sure that's hard to tell your kids.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Dream

• When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Family
  • Universe
  • Weird

• I travelled around small-town India a lot for a job from 2010-2012, and I was impressed by the energy I encountered in these places.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Job
  • Small
  • Energy

• What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Myself
  • Bold
  • Savage

• I've noticed that a lot of people in film always seem interested in music videos, like it's some, like, really exciting thing they've always wanted to do or something.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Music
  • Always

• I love seeing women looking great in my clothes. I don't care who they are. I don't quantify people by celebrity.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • People
  • Women
  • Celebrity

• If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.

  

  Larry Poons
  • Business
  • Think
  • Want

• When you do a remake, there's a lot of pressure because people always love the original.

  

  Indiana Evans
  • People
  • Love
  • Pressure

• I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Alone

• I try to tell a story that's good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. If it's poorly written or comes across as a sermon, then obviously you don't reach people, because they're aware that you're imposing something on a story that isn't innate to it.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • People
  • Good
  • Win

• Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Fashion
  • Media
  • Influential

• This is about getting into a corporation, screwing it up, putting in poison pills so your competitor can’t swallow it…. Very intricate game played in the 1980’s…. Mike Milken did it with junks bonds, Drexel Burnham.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Up
  • Game

• I've earned repose to heal the ravagesOf these angelic-looking savages.Oh, progeny playing by itselfIs a lonely little elf,But progeny in roistering batchesWould drive St. francis from here to Natchez.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Lonely

• The thunder rolls,And the lightnin' strikes.Another love grows coldOn a sleepless night.As the storm blows onOut of control,Deep in her heartThe thunder rolls.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Night
  • Control
  • Deep

• I want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I'm singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone in between.

  

  Joan Jett
  • Singing

• Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • Life
  • Sun
  • Gaze

• I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • School
  • Taken

• Few players hit the swinging forehand volley as often, or as well, as Maria Sharapova.

  

  Katrina Adams

• If there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who would not spend a bushel of diamonds and rubies and a cartload of gold just to have enough earth to plant a jasmine in a little pot, or to sow an orange seed and watch it sprout, grow, and produce its handsome leaves, its fragrant flowers, and fine fruit.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Prince
  • Jewels
  • Scarcity

• Born with them-born with them : all alike ! No pleasure equal to the pleasure of tormenting, to a woman.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon