Lydia Lassila Quotes & Sayings

I've had lots of offers of marriage and from women wanting to have my kids. — Gareth Gates

The state of civil society, which necessarily generates this aristocracy, is a state of nature; and much more truly so than a savage and incoherent mode of life. For man is by nature reasonable; and he is never perfectly in his natural state, but when he is placed where reason may be best cultivated, and most predominates. Art is man's nature. We are as much, at least, in a state of nature in formed manhood, as in immature and helpless infancy. — Edmund Burke

The ocean hides the oyster.
The oyster hides a pearl.
Bright armor and heavy helmet
Hid China's bravest girl. — Charlie Chin

I think I'm no different to my friends who are doctors or businessmen or architects - we all started watching films of the golden age together. But whether I'm making films or writing poetry or doing photography, it's very much rooted in my sense of unease. And that's really where everything goes back to. — Abbas Kiarostami

I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it's a balancing game. — Lily James

The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room, outside of our awareness. — Daniel Gilbert

In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love. — Octavio Paz

To make dollars from cents you have to have sense. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I never dated much. — Harry Connick Jr.

All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they are now getting. If we want different results, we must change the way we do things. — Tom Northup

No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning. — Zbigniew Herbert

I think I was unprepared for war. — George W. Bush