Edwin Lutyens Quotes

If one was told that monkeys had built it, one could only say, 'What wonderful monkeys - they must be shot in case they do it again.'

Edwin Lutyens

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• I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Job
  • Want
  • Day

• It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Up
  • Great
  • Country

• I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Inspired

• I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Good
  • Done
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• 'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Life
  • Good
  • She

• My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Marriage

• Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Women
  • Failure
  • Greatness

• Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates.

  

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky
  • Live
  • Health
  • Daily

• Embrace yourself and do what you can to look and feel your best. Don't put on so many fashion trends that create a ridiculous style statement. Pick and choose what feels good, and flatters your own body.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Style

• I believe that I'm an actor to this day because of 'Star Wars.' I saw 'Star Wars' as a child, and I was completely enamored by it.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Believe
  • Day
  • Star

• My job is to let everybody know what I stand for and to let my light shine. I want to show others the way I live so that hopefully they follow. I can also tell about my experiences as a Christian so that I may help bring others to Christ.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Live
  • May
  • Job

• You know, I have said before, and I will say again, that when we started on this journey, we did so with an abiding faith in the American people and their ability, our ability, to join together and change the country in ways that would make life better for our kids and our grandkids.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted. :(

  

  Kate DiCamillo

• We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Challenge

• And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?

  

  Ward Churchill
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Words

• Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.

  

  Aldous Huxley

• The great success of this system is that it makes the general public afraid of taking responsibility, afraid of taking a position or giving a definite answer, or even of making mistakes.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Great
  • Success
  • Giving

• An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Perfection

• Mexico has proven by now that it's a strong electoral democracy. Now we have to build a democracy that produces better results; if not, then you get a democracy of disenchantment.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Strong
  • Democracy

• Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.

  

  John Milton
  • Care
  • Boots
  • Uncessant

• There's still a place for someone to come up with a strong headline, some copy in a commercial that's well written. I'm not saying it was better in the old days; it's just a totally different way of communicating.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • Up
  • Different
  • Strong

• From now on there is no longer any development immanent to art. The times have passed for history of art with a logical sense. There is no longer even any consistency in absurdities; the development has been wound up, and what comes now already exists: the syncretism of a muddle of all styles and possibilities, post-history.

  

  Arnold Gehlen
  • Art
  • Development
  • Consistency

• If one was told that monkeys had built it, one could only say, 'What wonderful monkeys - they must be shot in case they do it again.'

  

  Edwin Lutyens