Arthur Helps Quotes

No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.

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• Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Country
  • Small
  • Author

• I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Life
  • Care
  • Deepest

• People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Money
  • Government

• I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Television

• Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Important
  • Done
  • Stop

• I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Life
  • Work
  • Interesting

• Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • End
  • System
  • Compromise

• It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Different
  • Studio

• Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Best

• I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Great
  • Day
  • Dreams

• I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's office. I never built or ran a department. So I was on this journey, and when the time came to make a decision, I was just going with my gut.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Time
  • Work
  • Business

• I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Work
  • Music
  • Together

• Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Want
  • Story
  • Finding

• I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Girl
  • Kind
  • Author

• Yeah, I can understand that. All the splendor of the Taj Mahal, without the inconvenience and expense of traveling to India.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks

• All I'm doing is putting Brancusi's 'Endless Column' on the ground, instead of in the sky. Most sculpture is priapic with the male organ in the air. In my work, Priapus is down on the floor. The engaged position is to run along the earth.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Work
  • Earth
  • Air

• In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.

  

  David Copperfield
  • Magic

• Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest.

  

  Alice Oswald

• Both Josh and Noah are capable of rushing for 1,000 yards. We know that. Josh is a great reader. He makes good decisions on cuts. Noah is extremely quick, a real slasher.

  

  Chris Smith
  • Good
  • Great
  • Real

• Life, it's life we deal with...He that sees the light And knows the light Shall live.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Life
  • Light
  • Deal

• Many artists, even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!

  

  Albert Camus
  • Judge
  • Existence
  • Artists

• No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Light
  • Decisions
  • Assemblies