Aubrey Beardsley Quotes

There was a young man with a salary, Who had to do drawings for Malory; When they asked him for more, He replied, 'Why? Sure You've enough as it is for a gallery.'

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• Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Sexuality
  • Seduction

• I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Lists

• Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Experience
  • Success

• Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Always
  • Once
  • Cubs

• The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.

  

  Walid Muallem
  • Good
  • Think
  • Secretary

• The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Respect
  • Trust
  • Appreciation

• I'm a slow starter.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Slow
  • Starter

• I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

• Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

  

  Wendell Johnson
  • Remember
  • Words
  • Never

• When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • People
  • Me
  • Appreciation

• I'm quite an advocate of free trade.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Free
  • Trade
  • Advocate

• I think it's natural when a team has such high expectations, under .500 halfway through the season, they're going to go after a brand new coach.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • High
  • Team
  • Season

• I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
  • Career
  • Old

• I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Music
  • Always
  • Try

• I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Gay
  • Politics
  • Late

• I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Speak
  • Try
  • Just

• I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • People
  • Like
  • Psychology

• We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • Work
  • Trust

• Why, instead of bringing order - planting a tree, building a house, washing socks or reading a fairytale to a child - does one need to engage in doing nothing, then after a good booze, taking up a club and smashing everything?

  

  Pyotr Aven
  • Up
  • Good
  • Why

• Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

  

  Maxim Gorky
  • Why
  • Friend

• When we were presented with the opportunity to start this group, we were just like, 'Why don't we?' The name stuck. You can also apply it to tons of different things. Why don't we spread positivity? Why don't we love each other?

  

  Jonah Marais Why Don't We
  • Different
  • Why
  • Opportunity

• There was a young man with a salary, Who had to do drawings for Malory; When they asked him for more, He replied, 'Why? Sure You've enough as it is for a gallery.'

  

  Aubrey Beardsley
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