Lily James Quotes

As cynical as I can be, there's always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale.

Lily James

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• Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

  

  Lactantius
  • Truth
  • Attention
  • Authority

• Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Bad
  • Song
  • Beginning

• In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Success

• What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Small
  • Space

• The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Simple
  • Act
  • Analysis

• I don't know how many bestsellers I've got, or half the awards I've won, and I don't really care. I'm just having fun, doing something I love and getting paid for it. How cool is that?

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Cool

• What really interests me is how a woman who has had a bad experience with a man comes through it and gets a new life. I feel you have to be positive. You have to say, 'Look, okay, he's ditched you, but there's life after.'

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Bad

• I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Care

• I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very lucrative.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Job
  • End

• And if you do all you can, that's all you can ever do.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • You
  • Ever

• I love the idea that movies, like 'Fast Times,' can be iconic and change people's lives in little, tiny ways.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Like
  • Idea

• Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

  

  Ovid
  • She
  • Nature
  • Soul

• When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Write

• Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Ambition
  • More
  • Down

• As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Time
  • Work
  • Past

• I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • School
  • Mean
  • Singing

• We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Free
  • Segregation
  • Cotton

• Being a people pleaser is a fruitless task; love is love. There's no debating that concept.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • People

• I think I would have written more books if I'd had fewer kids or had them earlier, but I think the books in general would have had a little less spark to them.

  

  Clyde Edgerton
  • Kids

• You see, Adam had a perfect brain. We don't, because our brain has suffered from thousands of years of sin and the curse. Frankly, we're nowhere near as intelligent as Adam was.

  

  Ken Ham
  • Perfect
  • Brain
  • Intelligent

• Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?

  

  Confucius
  • Mind
  • Faults
  • Prize

• Government unions should not be allowed to influence the public officials they are lobbying, and sitting across the bargaining table from, through campaign donations and expenditures.

  

  Bruce Rauner

• Marriage was defined by God a long time ago. Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve - one man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either.

  

  Kirk Cameron
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• As cynical as I can be, there's always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale.

  

  Lily James