Edwin Arnold Quotes

A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.

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• There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Good
  • You
  • Simple

• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Think
  • Will

• What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Trying
  • American
  • Find

• I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.

  

  Ice T
  • Love
  • Think
  • Acting

• It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Music
  • Question

• I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Age
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Together
  • River
  • Wood

• I've stated that it's possible the only reason I'm in show business is that I have such a strange, particular head of hair. That, and I can grow a red beard.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Business
  • Hair
  • Red

• When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Win
  • See
  • Run

• As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • War
  • Mistakes
  • Celebrate

• I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Television
  • Watch

• I would love to have the honor to get to work with Meryl Streep. I love her and I love her work.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Work
  • Honor
  • Get

• I enjoy money.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • Money
  • Enjoy

• I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Effective
  • Storyteller
  • Expert

• Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Success
  • Learn

• I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Water
  • Habit
  • Afraid

• [London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic.... One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Dirty

• I think it's healthy that people that work in a creative field look for inspiration in a different creative field.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Creative

• It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Great
  • Church
  • Rain

• If the sun warms up the rain, and the rain puts out the sun. Why does the greatest love become the greatest pain?

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Pain
  • Sun
  • Rain

• And there is nothing between us but rain. Then there is nothing between us at all.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Rain

• A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.

  

  Edwin Arnold
  • Rain
  • Field
  • Cup