Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.

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• We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

  

  Ice T
  • Rap
  • Year
  • Old

• When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Up
  • Different
  • Business

• I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Like
  • Trust
  • Instinct

• Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.

  

  Babasaheb
  • May
  • Bad
  • Man

• Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Light

• In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Future
  • Like
  • See

• My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Always
  • Doing
  • Need

• Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Painting
  • Movement
  • Analysis

• We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Work
  • Planning
  • Plan

• There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Energy

• People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Words
  • Ideas

• Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Art
  • Why

• I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Movie
  • Read
  • Maybe

• I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Important
  • Name
  • Tough

• If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Design
  • Building
  • Clothes

• Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Time
  • Book
  • Movie

• The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Whole
  • Ridiculous
  • Insanity

• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Growth
  • Ambition
  • Proceeds

• I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address CEO-level issues.

  

  Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
  • Time
  • World
  • Technology

• The smell of shrimp is comforting.

  

  Lennon Parham
  • Comforting

• This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

  

  Joe Biden

• Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.

  

  Chris Rock
  • People
  • Time
  • Happy

• Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Snow
  • Sunshine