Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

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• There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Morning

• As an organization, Esri is strong, and we're continuing to grow. We're dedicated to this. And we're excited to see what you can accomplish and to watch your work evolve.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Organization

• I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Happy

• Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • War
  • Amazing
  • Universe

• I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. You can't stay on the same page in order to get to the next chap.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Trying
  • Same
  • Page

• I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Up
  • Business
  • Feeling

• The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Money
  • Want

• I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Actually

• Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • People
  • Positive
  • Stupid

• I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Art
  • Job
  • Respect

• My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Home
  • Black
  • Light

• Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Joy
  • Laughter
  • Strange

• Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Jesus
  • Religion
  • Him

• I've always been interested in making movies.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Interested

• Buildings are forms of performances.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Buildings
  • Forms

• Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Nature
  • Religion
  • Islam

• Nepal is a beautiful country with a lot of holy places. I also like the country because it's close to the Himalayas. According to Hindu mythology, that's the abode of Lord Shiva.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • Hindu

• Consciousness is not wholly, nor even primarily a device for receiving sense-impressions. ...there is another outlook than the scientific one, because in practice a more transcendental outlook is almost universally admitted. ...who does not prize these moments that reveal to us the poetry of existence?

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Moments
  • Practice
  • Poetry

• Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point.

  

  Marco Brambilla
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Attention

• We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best among us cannot pretend they deserve - or could contrive - anything better.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Sun
  • Tree
  • Complaining

• A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.

  

  Will Self
  • Thinking
  • Stories
  • Humans

• I love him (Josh Homme) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much ... unless you're family.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Family
  • Hurt

• Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
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