Lewis Carroll Quotes

I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide.

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• We all have our place in this diverse Spain.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Place
  • Diverse
  • Spain

• Last week I told my wife, If you would learn to cook, I could fire the chef. She said, If you could learn to make love, I could fire the chauffer.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Love
  • She
  • Wife

• All of my shows involve men in tights. It's a bit bizarre, really.

  

  Vinnie Jones
  • Men
  • Shows
  • Bizarre

• Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Mother
  • Philosophy
  • Leisure

• Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

  

  Socrates
  • World
  • Man
  • Earth

• The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Things
  • Knows
  • Get

• It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Writing
  • Energy
  • Mean

• May the time not be far off when all other European nations will come to the realisation that the primary necessity is putting an end to the quarrels and strife of centuries and of building up of a finer community of all peoples is: The recognition of a higher common duty arising out of common rights?

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Community
  • Duty
  • Realisation

• Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

  

  William Blake
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Chief

• I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Education
  • Firsts
  • Faculty

• Great emotional singing isn't a destination, it's a journey, one to be taken time and again to different places with different moods and different audiences.

  

  Deke Sharon Tufts Beelzebubs
  • Singing
  • Journey
  • Destination

• The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach.

  

  Rabbi Hillel
  • Learn
  • Teach
  • Shy

• I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Considered
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  • Delivered