Alice Barrett Quotes

In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.

Alice Barrett

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• Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Personality

• The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • May
  • Dangerous
  • November

• I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • True
  • College
  • Child

• When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Time
  • Mother
  • House

• Anyone can wear my dresses. They will look good on any figure, no matter what shape you are. I want to celebrate a woman's inner strength, to inspire real women and make them feel confident and beautiful.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Good
  • Women
  • Real

• As to each of us, the knowledge that we are here but briefly and a nonnegotiable limit is set to our expected time may even be necessary as the incentive to number our days and make them count.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Time
  • May
  • Knowledge

• Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • World
  • Today
  • College

• If I was President of the United States, I'd rather be right than interesting. If I was CEO of a company, I'd rather be right than interesting. But I'm a journalist - what journalist would rather be right than interesting?

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Interesting
  • Company

• With 'Aja,' there was a sort of happy conjunction between our tastes and the backgrounds and styles of studio musicians at the time.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Musicians

• I came from a working-class family, but I was supported by a grant system and had my fees paid, so I came out of Oxford with a debt of something like £200.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Family
  • System
  • Debt

• I have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Family
  • American
  • Veterans

• I think Americans are - particularly, independent voters are looking at Washington, and they see too many taxes, too much spending, too much debt, too many Washington takeovers, and they want to provide a check and a balance to what they see as a runaway, overreaching Washington government.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Think
  • Government
  • Balance

• If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Success
  • Film
  • Might

• If you put yourself in a place where you're having to work at understanding something, then you keep yourself awake to all possible choices. How the body will look like in the future, the ethics of the body: those are questions that really fascinate me. Let's get the dialogue going.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Work
  • Future
  • Understanding

• We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Sky

• How could millennia-old superbeings be so boring?

  

  Kage Baker

• Temi, Adso, i profeti e coloro disposti a morire per la verità, ché di solito fan morire moltissimo con loro, spesso prima di loro, talvolta al posto loro.

  

  Umberto Eco

• Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.

  

  Leslie Stephen

• In Glendale, where I live, there's a street called Broadway. The bottoms of the light posts have swastikas on them.

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • Live
  • Light

• I love being in the States because there's an emphasis on work. People are enthusiastic. They put heart into things.

  

  Lea Seydoux
  • People
  • Work
  • Heart

• Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • World
  • Country
  • Age

• What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,-generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.

  

  John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Good
  • Words

• In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.

  

  Alice Barrett