Lord Kelvin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
-
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
-
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
-
We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
-
Anna Wintour has guided me.
-
When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
-
You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
-
There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
-
Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
-
I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
-
I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
-
Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
-
Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
-
I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
-
I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
-
I come with bad genetics, personally.
-
As soon as there is life there is danger.
-
Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.
-
I hate when people don't hear the actual words out of your mouth or even the intent of it. They just hear something completely different.
-
All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table.
-
No matter who we are or where we live, we all share a basic concern for the safety and well-being of our young people. Their welfare is the most telling measure of our nation's success - and their potential is the most promising element of its future. It is up to us - all of us - to safeguard that future.
-
You can stand at a bar and scream all you want about who was the greatest athlete and which was the greatest sports dynasty, and you can shout out your precious statistics, and maybe you're right, and maybe the red-faced guy down the bar - the one with the foam on his beer and the fancy computer rankings - is right, but nobody really knows.
-
The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these, and to such like Questions.
-
The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.
