Bertrand Russell Quotes

In art the Chinese aim at being exquisite, and in life at being reasonable.

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• It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • World
  • God

• I waited for my first kiss.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • First
  • Kiss
  • First Kiss

• Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Real
  • Desire

• I would like to direct.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Like
  • Would
  • Direct

• From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Great
  • Love
  • Success

• I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • War
  • Me
  • President

• I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Football
  • Player

• I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Good
  • Movie

• Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Flower

• I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • More
  • Three
  • Days

• I don't really do sad, depressing songs.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Sad
  • Songs
  • Depressing

• I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Up
  • Live
  • Relationship

• The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Violence
  • Inspiration
  • Respond

• I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Career
  • Very
  • Been

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Singing
  • Expression

• I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Dog
  • Named

• I've been training quite hard.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Training
  • Hard
  • Been

• Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which does not involve their defeat - especially the defeat of time, so that one may merge oneself with the whole historic stream and be wholly emancipated from the transient and the ephemeral.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Time
  • May
  • Law

• I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Art
  • Bad

• I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me.

  

  Joe Mansueto
  • Life

• Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility.

  

  Susan Sontag
  • Art
  • Consciousness
  • Sensibility

• I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make the songs relatable in a way; I want to keep melodies pretty simple and the lyrics open-ended so that people could maybe relate them to their own life in different ways. Something for everybody to have a piece of.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• In art the Chinese aim at being exquisite, and in life at being reasonable.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Art
  • Chinese