Anna Sewell Quotes

I don't believe in religion, for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.

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• The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Night

• I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Influence
  • My Own
  • Height

• Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Trying
  • Understanding

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• I was raised in church. I was brought up in that life, and I think that it's very important for everybody to be in touch with their spirituality and to have a relationship with God.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Christian
  • Values
  • Roots

• I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Crazy

• I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Sound
  • Drunk
  • Tongue

• Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Book
  • Model
  • Dog

• We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don't need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Children
  • Money
  • High

• What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers look, but I think you never have any idea of your own, or what other people think of you.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Think
  • Interesting

• Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Help
  • Culture
  • Wait

• In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Different
  • School
  • Together

• Numerous studies have shown how when one person in a romantic coupling gets depressed, the other becomes more depressed.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Person
  • Romantic
  • More

• In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character

• Budgets are matters of priority and prioritizing. It's a high priority.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • High
  • Priority
  • Matters

• You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.

  

  Laura Ziskin
  • Know
  • Proud
  • Movies

• The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Realize

• Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Individual
  • Gratitude
  • Shame

• Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?

  

  David Lloyd George
  • People
  • Rest

• But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Water
  • Rest
  • First

• 'The Daily Show,' at its core, is the answer to the nightly news.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Daily
  • News
  • Answer

• I don't believe in religion, for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.

  

  Anna Sewell
  • Rest
  • Religion
  • Don't Believe