Lewis Carroll Quotes

The light was faint, and soft the air That breathed around the place; And she was lithe, and tall, and fair, And with a wayward grace Her queenly head she bare.

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• Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

  

  Karl Kraus
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• Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Brain
  • Air
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• One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Fear
  • Action
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• My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Mom
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• Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket,' but she let me explore and be creative.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Up
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  • She

• The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Money
  • Powerful
  • Air

• I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Light

• Kelly Clarkson definitely reminds me of Motown. She's pop, but she's also very, very soulful.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • She
  • Me
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• I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Want
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  • Air

• My full name's Jonathan Kimble, but my parents didn't want to call me either. So for a while, I went by Kim, which is a name for a girl or a Korean person.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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  • Girl
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• Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.

  

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  • She
  • Hate
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• I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
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  • Mother
  • Connect

• I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.

  

  Uri Geller
  • She
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• Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • She
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• If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Love
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  • Woman

• Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Book

• He’s like a sunflower, Grace. He leans into me as if I were the source of all light.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Light
  • Source
  • Sunflower

• When I see people with an interesting gap year, if they can explain it, if they can justify it, if they can show what they've learnt from it, it's sometimes more profitable or more intelligent than having been through a traditional, continuous race from high school to the end of university.

  

  Jean-Pascal Tricoire
  • People
  • School
  • High

• It doesn't require much thought for one to realise that any travel book worthy of the name has to be a departure from the standard idea of the form.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Book
  • Travel

• Wine whets the wit, improves its native force…

  

  John Pomfret
  • Wine

• The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.

  

  Monica Ali
  • Needs
  • Certain

• The light was faint, and soft the air That breathed around the place; And she was lithe, and tall, and fair, And with a wayward grace Her queenly head she bare.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • She
  • Light
  • Air