Anthony Trollope Quotes

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

Anthony Trollope

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• I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • Job
  • Growth
  • Economy

• Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • Up
  • Way
  • You

• What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Power
  • Solitude
  • Destroy

• It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Life
  • Up
  • Education

• I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows. I was a solid in the midst of other solids.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Great
  • Light
  • Patience

• It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism-Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete-opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Art
  • Together

• A good honest and painfull sermon.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Good

• I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.

  

  Mae West

• That strange flower, the sun, Is just what you say. Have it your way.The world is ugly, And the people are sad..

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • People
  • World
  • Sun

• This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • House
  • Night
  • Black

• I'm the first to admit that there's something unnatural... something unseemly... about rock stars mounting the pulpit and preaching at presidents, and then disappearing to their villas in the South of France. Talk about a fish out of water. It was weird enough when Jesse Helms showed up at a U2 concert... but this is really weird, isn't it?

  

  Bono U2
  • Up
  • Water
  • Rock

• We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Live

• In the category of economic superpowers, more is better than less - the more technology those leaders develop, the more we all benefit.

  

  Edward C. Prescott
  • Technology

• The fundamentals for me are character and conflict. I put character first because readers will be indifferent to conflict if they are indifferent to the character who is experiencing it.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Character

• I still love R&B - I kind of literally listen to everything.

  

  Chris Lane

• At some point, I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it; that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.

  

  Jane Hirshfield
  • Life
  • Experience

• With brain hacking experiments, I've hacked into Morgan Freeman's brain. He was the most famous and the most nerve wracking because I got really awestruck when I met him, and the moment I was introduced to him, he challenged me there and then to hack his brain.

  

  Keith Barry
  • Brain
  • Famous

• I love how Shakespeare can really rip your heart out one second and then make you laugh the next. He's a master writer.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Heart
  • Rip

• I like to get goals.

  

  Dele Alli
  • Goals

• You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Men
  • Pain
  • Fall

• Did not Troyon tell me to enter the studio of Couture in Paris? It is needless to tell you how decided was my refusal to do so. I admit even that it cooled me, temporarily at least, in my esteem and admiration of Troyon.. ..and I after all, connected myself only with artists who were seeking.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Paris

• I am interested in all aspects of filmmaking, so I have an opinion on every aspect, so sound design, score, cinematography, editing - all that stuff I have experience doing myself, so I had a very strong idea of what I wanted, and I got, for the most part, people that were able to articulate that idea, which was nice.

  

  Jeff Baena
  • People
  • Experience
  • Strong

• It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Men
  • Luxury
  • Rescue