Lily Cole Quotes
Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.
Quotes to Explore
-
Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
-
There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
-
What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
-
My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
-
We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
-
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
-
If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
-
Creative people are more prone to depression.
-
My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
-
I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
-
I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
-
I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
-
The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
-
It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
-
The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
-
Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
-
Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
-
Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.
-
Life is a series of commas, not periods.
-
The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.
-
In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.
-
We are aware of the strategic location of Kuwait, besides the stable region.
-
In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
-
Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.
