Bertrand Russell Quotes

I feel like that intellectual but plain-looking lady who was warmly complimented on her beauty.

Bertrand Russell

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• I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Doctor

• Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Up
  • Time
  • Society

• So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Age
  • Picture
  • Learn

• He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Never

• Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Animals
  • Marine

• Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

  

  Malcolm Arnold
  • People
  • Music
  • Friendship

• Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Important
  • Speak
  • Leaders

• More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Process
  • Victim
  • Survivor

• All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Inspiration
  • Moment
  • Talk

• I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Policy
  • Israel
  • Palestine

• You do not defend a world that is already lost.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • World
  • You
  • Lost

• I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • People
  • Me
  • Roles

• Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • People
  • Success
  • Society

• Racist people, interestingly, are never as polite as smokers. Have you noticed that? Smokers always go, 'Do you mind if I smoke? Oh, you do? Okay, I'll go outside and have a cigarette.' Racist people never go, 'Do you mind if I'm racist? Oh, I'll go outside … fucking blue people, eh? Coming here, steal our hamsters …'

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Mind
  • Blue

• I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Book
  • Reading

• I do not ask that flowers should always springBeneath my feetI know too well the poison and the stingOf things too sweet.

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Sweet

• Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • May
  • Poetry
  • Painting

• If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.'

  

  Aristotle Onassis
  • World
  • Women
  • Money

• As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Dream
  • Spiritual

• Everybody has been saying 'Srimanthudu' is the best film of my career. After watching the film, Dad told me that he's never seen me perform like this. I just couldn't stop myself from crying.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Career
  • Me
  • Stop

• It's important to me to be able to hit the notes and just be able to fly when I sing.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Important
  • Fly

• In Europe, you can sit out and sit in the sun, and you get a very golden tan. The tan you get in Las Vegas is a darker tan, and it's not the same.

  

  Joel Robuchon
  • Sun
  • Vegas

• I feel like that intellectual but plain-looking lady who was warmly complimented on her beauty.

  

  Bertrand Russell