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

• I just take on what I can commit to completely at that point in time, and that way you'll be able to give your best.

  

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
  • Time

• I'm a messenger. I'm one piece of a giant jigsaw puzzle.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Pieces
  • Giants
  • Puzzles

• People got to understand, the fighters at the top are the fighters that are supposed to get paid because they're the guys that are bringing people in, bringing eyes to the TV, getting pay-per-views buys, and putting people in the seats. I mean, that's what it comes down to.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • People
  • Eyes

• Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people.

  

  Laurel Clark
  • People
  • Up
  • Beautiful

• The fish who keeps on swimming is the first to chill upstream.

  

  Nick Hexum
  • Swimming
  • Fish
  • Upstream

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

  

  Bertrand Russell