Edward Lear Quotes

Calico Jam,The little Fish swam,Over the syllabub sea,He took off his hat,To the Sole and the Sprat,And the Willeby-Wat,-But he never came back to me!

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• Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • City
  • Always
  • Early

• I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

  

  Ed Harris
  • Family
  • History
  • Problems

• If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Man
  • Technology
  • Wait

• It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • Movies
  • Building

• We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Truth
  • Lie
  • Hypocrisy

• You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • You
  • Someone
  • Without

• No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Nation
  • Calendar
  • July

• I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.

  

  Harland Williams
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Focus

• I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Style
  • Movies
  • Bag

• Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Me
  • Like
  • Quarter

• I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Moments
  • Evolution
  • Image

• Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • People
  • Like
  • Pretentious

• Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • Real
  • Internet

• As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Live
  • Power
  • America

• Choir of Women: It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation. (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Men
  • Women
  • Present

• Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Good

• I will never fully understand; that is the nature of such creatures. Or is this Inner Truth now, this that is happening to me? I will wait. I will see. Which it is. Perhaps it is both.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Truth
  • Nature

• You move me, you move me.with your buildings and your eyesAutumn woods and Winter skies.You move me, you move me.Open sea and city lights, busy streets and dizzy heights.You call me, you call me. - The Analog Kid (1982)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • City
  • Sea
  • Winter

• The origin of each of us stems from codes of genetic inheritance.

  

  John Eccles

• Calico Jam,The little Fish swam,Over the syllabub sea,He took off his hat,To the Sole and the Sprat,And the Willeby-Wat,-But he never came back to me!

  

  Edward Lear
  • Sea