Anna Jameson Quotes

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

Anna Jameson

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• Good design should be honest.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Good
  • Design
  • Honest

• Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Mother

• I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Long
  • City
  • Grandmother

• Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Kids
  • Past
  • Know

• I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Work
  • Family
  • Taken

• My cross earrings are a mini statement; I wear them every day! My whole dream is to be iconic, and the way you dress yourself is so important.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Important
  • Dream
  • Day

• There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Guy
  • Mean
  • Politics

• You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Done
  • Want
  • Artist

• Being the leader of a division is a pressure, but it's one that I feel I am ready for.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Leader
  • Pressure
  • Division

• Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Man
  • Action
  • Never

• I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will share it with me. I wake up to 10-15 links that people have explicitly recommended for me. I don't have to look for news anymore; it flows to me.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • People
  • Up
  • Wake Up

• There's gonna be people that don't like you, regardless. But I take on the mentality of, 'Look, I'm gonna do whatever I want to do. If people don't like, they don't like it.'

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Want
  • Look

• Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Up
  • God
  • Real

• Being talked about like a package - I feel like that all the time.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Time
  • Feel
  • Package

• I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Feel

• We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Children
  • Family
  • Together

• A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • People
  • Joy
  • Color

• I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in.

  

  James Purefoy
  • People
  • Business

• Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.

  

  Jim Yong Kim
  • Great
  • Single
  • Poverty

• I wanted to be a venture capitalist and join Sequoia Capital. They've financed and helped built some really special and enormously successful companies, including Google, Yahoo, Paypal, YouTube, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, and also Zappos.

  

  Alfred Lin

• Tell me how you could say such a thing, she said, staring down at the ground beneath her feet. You're not telling me anything I don't know already. 'Relax your body, and the rest of you will lighten up.' What's the point of saying that to me? If I relaxed my body now, I'd fall apart. I've always lived like this, and it's the only way I know how to go on living. If I relaxed for a second, I'd never find my way back. I'd go to pieces, and the pieces would be blown away. Why can't you see that? How can you talk about watching over me if you can't see that?

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • See
  • Feet
  • Relaxed

• On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Dream
  • Girl

• We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

  

  Anna Jameson