Don Henley Quotes

So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist.

Don Henley The Eagles

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• I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Fall
  • Actors
  • Directors

• Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Fabulous

• My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Science
  • Action
  • Environmental

• How many times have you opened a book, read the first few sentences and made a snap decision about whether to buy it? When it's your book that's coming under this casual-but-critical scrutiny, you want the reader to be instantly hooked. The way to accomplish this is to create compelling opening sentences.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Book
  • Want
  • Decision

• I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Bad
  • Sometimes
  • Theatre

• I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.

  

  Verite
  • Future
  • Want
  • Career

• And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Important
  • Truth
  • American

• We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Sense

• Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Light

• Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Literature
  • Start

• What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Find

• Notting Hill is a very different carnival from anywhere else. This is an international city, so it represents everybody. You walk around every corner here, you'll hear something new. It's awesome.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Different
  • City
  • Awesome

• The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • World
  • Will
  • Unite

• The best design work is really done when you spend more time with people, when you have the opportunity to be of the same mindset and the same incentives as the founder of the business.

  

  Yves Behar
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• It's great to do stuff that 'gets you out of the house' in a way - that gets you to meet other people!

  

  Ben Miller
  • People
  • House
  • Stuff

• The first draft of anything is sh*t.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Creativity
  • Firsts
  • Inspiring

• Next time you open the paper, and you see an intellectual property decision, a telecoms decision, it's not about something small and technical. It is about the future of the freedom to be as social beings with each other, and the way information, knowledge and culture will be produced.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Time
  • Future
  • Culture

• We have the idea that God is going to do some exceptional thing- that He is preparing and equipping us for some extraordinary work in the future. But as we grow in His grace we find that God is glorifying Himself here and now, at this very moment. If we have God’s assurance behind us, the most amazing strength becomes ours, and we learn to sing, glorifying Him even in the ordinary days and ways of life.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Work
  • God

• Structural work is only a bandage unless feelings have been healed.

  

  Arnold Mindell
  • Work
  • Feelings
  • Healed

• So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Creative
  • Firsts
  • Enemies