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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
-
You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
-
I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
-
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.
-
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.
-
It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
-
Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
-
I am a just man.
-
I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.
-
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.
-
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
-
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?
-
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.
-
Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
-
The history of Montana has been of the government giving land grants to people that could not possibly turn it into decent farms. And that's destroying their lives. So they don't see the government as something that's out there to help them.
-
I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
-
But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.
-
There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.
-
I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.
-
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.
