Lewis Carroll Quotes

Here is a golden Rule to begin with. Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyed this Rule! A great deal of the bad writing in the world comes simply from writing too quickly.

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• After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Lost
  • Space
  • London

• I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Style
  • Like

• You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

  

  Barry Mann
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• I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
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  • Person
  • Found

• The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mother
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  • Relationship

• Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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• Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Me
  • Surprise
  • Involved

• In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Better
  • Songs
  • Exciting

• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Country
  • Think
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• It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Career
  • Finish
  • Coach

• Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.

  

  B. D. Wong
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  • Very

• I am a just man.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Man

• I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Golf
  • Ever
  • Houston

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
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  • Good

• I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Time
  • Why
  • Fun

• I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Long
  • Man

• Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Music
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• It's funny; in fashion, you can never relax and feel like it's all sorted. Every season, you have to give yourself a challenge and come up with something new and fresh.

  

  Jenny Packham
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Fashion

• An outsider's point of view is always handy.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Point
  • View
  • Point Of View

• L.A. is big, although Hollywood's not as glamorous as I thought; it's kind of grungy.

  

  Ben Hardy

• I think there are definitely two types of student: the academic kids and the 50% who fail. It's very clear to see - it's fact. We're not doing enough for those who fail; they need a more physical, tactile approach, involving people skills, team-building, problem-solving, building things.

  

  Jamie Oliver
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• Here is a golden Rule to begin with. Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyed this Rule! A great deal of the bad writing in the world comes simply from writing too quickly.

  

  Lewis Carroll
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  • Writing