J. B. Priestley Quotes
We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.
Quotes to Explore
-
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
-
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
-
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
-
I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
-
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
-
I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
-
I'm very open-minded.
-
Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
-
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
-
I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.
-
Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
-
As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
-
If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.
-
The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
-
I don't think anyone wants to look in the mirror and say, 'I'm anti-woman.' They don't see themselves that way, and you can't treat them that way. But you have to tell the truth.
-
How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
-
Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
-
A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.
-
I grew up around writers, and there was always a romance to them. They were charming. They would tell their stories of what they were working on, over the table.
-
Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time.
-
We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.
-
I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
-
Knowing you’re worthless doesn’t give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.
-
We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.
