Margaret Cavendish Quotes

Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.

Margaret Cavendish

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• I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Real
  • Think
  • Psychology

• I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Years
  • Fiction
  • Maybe

• I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Work
  • Family
  • Soul

• One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Today
  • Rest
  • Youth

• I am really focused on how I can improve myself and the world around me.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • World
  • Focused
  • Improve

• Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Responsibility
  • Challenge

• I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Great
  • Me
  • Wind

• Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Time
  • Children
  • Change

• I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Life
  • Real
  • Dreams

• This is exactly how minds are opened: through honest, frank dialogue. Tears may be shed, but not blood.

  

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • May
  • Tears

• I should like very much to go to America. I have heard so much of the great industrial and economic development of that great land, and I wish to see things for myself.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • Great
  • America
  • Wish

• When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

  

  Lynn Abbey
  • Words

• I always thought, because America is supposed to be the land of the free, nudity would be part of the norm over there, but it isn't. It's surprising.

  

  Mark Roberts
  • America
  • Free

• I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life: it's a somewhat focused, limited terrain in which you write about everything.

  

  Lawrence Weschler
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Art

• My favorite teams are the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Jets.

  

  Bridget Hall

• The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it.

  

  James E. Casey
  • People
  • Believe
  • Business

• A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.

  

  David Bohm
  • Mind

• Love is not consolation. It is light.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Light

• Opportunity may only come once in a lifetime.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • Lifetime

• I thought of all the different kinds of love in the world. I could think of ten without even trying. The way parents love their kids, the way you love a puppy or chocolate ice cream or home or your favorite book or your sister. Or your uncle. There's those kinds of love and then there's the other kind. The falling kind.

  

  Carol Rifka Brunt
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Heart
  • Suffer
  • Brains

• I have a very positive and optimistic view about what we can do together. That's why the slogan of my campaign is 'Stronger Together.' Because I think if we work together, if we overcome the divisiveness that sometimes sets Americans against one another, and instead we make some big goals - and I've set forth some big goals: Getting the economy to work for everyone, not just those at the top, making sure that we have the best education system from preschool through college, making it affordable, and so much else.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Campaign
  • Slogan
  • Stronger Together

• Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.

  

  Margaret Cavendish
  • Brains
  • Speakers
  • Grounds