Claire Tomalin Quotes

I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not in a position to behave as badly, because you don't have the economic power.

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• When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!

  

  Ian Beattie
  • Friends
  • Father
  • Dream

• After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Money
  • Success
  • Kind

• We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • World
  • Today
  • Reality

• All of the land of Israel is ours.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Land
  • Israel
  • Ours

• I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Live
  • Die
  • More

• I like to discover new things.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Like
  • New
  • New Things

• We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Want
  • Continue
  • Differently

• I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Real
  • Heart

• I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Why
  • Man

• In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Winning
  • Years
  • Independence

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Book
  • Education
  • Friend

• It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Support
  • Cold
  • Loving

• Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Soul
  • Someone
  • Save

• It's never crowded along the extra mile.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Never
  • Crowded
  • Mile

• Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Way
  • Knowledge
  • Intuition

• Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Lost
  • Day

• The manifestation of the Divinity must be understood to be in greater degree in those who are honoured, respected, and obeyed by a large following, than in those who have gained no such influence.

  

  Ramakrishna

• My mom knows when something is real and something is not.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Real
  • Mom

• The skull is nature's sculpture.

  

  David Bailey
  • Nature

• I love actors. I married one. OK, I married a fantastic one.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Actors
  • Married
  • Fantastic

• I want every Israeli child, secular and religious, to know about Moses, about Maimonides, about Yoni Netanyahu, about Hannah Senesh and S. Y. Agnon. I want every child to know how to read the Bible, and know how to make Kiddush.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Want
  • Religious
  • Child

• I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not in a position to behave as badly, because you don't have the economic power.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Life
  • Power
  • Hope