Senator Claiborne Pell Quotes & Sayings

I love playing roles that are physical, absolutely love. Whether it's just that kind of basic level of physicality or whether it's stunts. — Ellen Page

So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we have just described, be funnelled into his soul through his ears, and gives up all his time to the glamorous moanings of song, the effect at first on his energy and initiative of mind, if he has any, is to soften it as iron is softened in a furnace, and made workable instead of hard and unworkable: but if he persists and does not break the enchantment, the next stage is that it melts and runs, till the spirit has quite run out of him and his mental sinews (if I may so put it) are cut, and he has become what Homer calls "a feeble fighter". — Plato

Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act. — Leo Buscaglia

Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way. — Laozi

If I had to pick one exact moment when we were live on air and something very, very special happened it was at the Athens Olympics. Chris Hoy won the Gold Medal in the kilometre time trial and that was incredible. — Jill Douglas

I prefer sneaking in the back door. — Mark Gatiss

It bothers me when musicians listen to music from the '60s and try and recreate it. Those people weren't trying to recreate music from the '20s. Why do it? — James Vincent McMorrow

Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found? — Harold Bloom

When Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell first proposed the grants that now bear his name, he envisioned a way to help students attend our country's wonderful colleges and universities, so they could share in the American Dream. — Sheldon Whitehouse

There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights. — Muammar Al-Gaddafi

Design has allowed us to stand out; to look different and show that difference boldy. — Joseph D Mansueto

The thing I'll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun that I'll ever have in my life. — Sally Ride

I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school. — Samantha Fox

All he knew was that he was a body in search of motion. — Victoria Schwab

People don't understand us. They don't understand me. They think it's so black and white, that he makes me miserable and that I should be with someone else and that I deserve something else.
But it's not black and white at all. It's gray. It's a never ending world of gray. — Amanda Grace

The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you're hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them. — George R R Martin