Anne Bronte Quotes
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.
Anne Bronte
Quotes to Explore
Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
M.I.A.
All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
Otto Weininger
I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
Adam Brody
Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
Wallace Shawn
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.
Zach Galifianakis
I love to smile.
Inge de Bruijn
It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
Fernando Botero
I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come.
Ingrid Betancourt
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mahatma Gandhi
Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
Brown Campbell
I've eight brothers and sisters - five girls, four boys. I am the seventh.
Alek Wek
'There’s a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn’t have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual.'
John Williams
I always wanted to be known as the Norman Rockwell of television, and 'Happy Days' represented the part of me that wanted to make mainstream America laugh.
Garry Marshall
I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.
Christopher Walken
I am no politician.
Lech Walesa
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.
Anne Bronte
