Charles Eames Quotes

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

Charles Eames

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• I feel very, very blessed.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Feel
  • Blessed
  • Very

• The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Heart
  • Doctor
  • Satisfied

• I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Language

• I need to be able to explain myself in context.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Myself
  • Need
  • Explain

• No one today knows what is indecent.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Today
  • Knows
  • Indecent

• I don't put a ton of time into my on-stage style, largely because I'm dumb about clothes. But I have friends who are very smart about clothes, and they teach me things. For the show, I'm mainly concerned with feeling comfortable, being able to jump around and get wild.

  

  K. Flay
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Feeling

• I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Literature
  • Pride
  • Books

• It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

  

  Becky G
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Makeup

• I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted there over the years, unlike New York, where we had to fight for everything.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • City
  • Fight
  • Angry

• No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Religion
  • Others
  • Promotion

• Whoever stands for 'one China' will get our support. We can have talks with them, and our talks will cover anything.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Support
  • Will
  • China

• I have a knife collection.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Collection
  • Knife

• My mum wanted me to go to university.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Me
  • Go
  • University

• The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Week
  • Down

• When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Political
  • Ideas
  • Management

• The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • World
  • Revolution
  • Whole

• In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy, except - due to her rejection of Apollo's affections - nobody would ever believe her warnings.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Believe
  • Gift
  • Greek

• I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Hate
  • Water
  • Swimming

• I read books all the time. I'm just half looking for something to do; I mostly just read for pleasure. Occasionally I stumble across something that could be a movie, but I don't put a book down just because I don't see a movie in it, either.

  

  Andrew Dominik
  • Time
  • Book
  • Movie

• Brine shrimp were not overly talkative, squirrels failed to make significant headway in the fields of technology and mathematics, and seagulls were clearly unburdened by reason, feeling, or remorse.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Squirrels
  • Seagulls
  • Shrimp

• Sometimes English football takes pride in having the lowest yellow-card count in Europe, but of course it will have if you can take someone's leg off and still not be booked.

  

  Luis Suarez
  • Football
  • English
  • Pride

• The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Acting
  • Philosophy
  • Connection

• Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel - these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Art
  • Knowledge
  • Ideas

• It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

  

  Charles Eames