Lily Collins Quotes

I'm a huge fan of the series of books by Cassandra Clare, 'The Mortal Instruments.'

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• Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Morality
  • Truth Is

• At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • City
  • Present
  • Thousand

• I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film – now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • World
  • Enjoy
  • Working

• When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Own
  • Office
  • My Own

• Everything I do now is a first.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • First
  • Everything
  • Now

• I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Dad
  • Actor
  • Problems

• Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Past
  • Crazy
  • Planning

• Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • May
  • Suffering
  • Deep

• When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• I've always felt that color is intrinsically personal. It evokes a tremendous amount of emotion. If there's a color you respond to, that's something you can incorporate into your home. No one can tell you it's wrong.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Home
  • Color
  • Emotion

• The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be happy.

  

  Eddie Slovik
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Luck

• I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Money
  • House
  • Living

• Music has always been really important to me.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Music
  • Important
  • Me

• Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Love
  • Know
  • Alone

• Simplicity is the glory of expression.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Expression
  • Simplicity

• That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Work
  • Different
  • Love

• As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Suffering

• Go down to Kew in lilac-time, in lilac-time, in lilac-time;Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from London!)And you shall wander hand in hand with love in summer's wonderland;Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from London!)

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Summer

• I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple; Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys, That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander, Go antickly, and show outward hideousness, And speak off half a dozen dangerous words, How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst; And this is all.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Hurt
  • Enemy
  • Speak

• This love your minstrels sing of, must it always be a knight and a lady? Who made this law? Was it God? Then God is a trickster, for there is no one else will do for me.

  

  Colin Falconer
  • God
  • Love
  • Law

• What really matters is what's on the inside.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Really
  • Inside
  • Matters

• Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Opinion
  • Writers
  • Derelicts

• That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Lies
  • Boring
  • Confusing

• I'm a huge fan of the series of books by Cassandra Clare, 'The Mortal Instruments.'

  

  Lily Collins