Leslie Stephen Quotes

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.

Leslie Stephen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 28, 1832 - February 22, 1904

Topics

GreatMenManWalkingPlayLetters

If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.

Joe Morton

CareerLooksGoCraftYourOnce

When I was 10 or 11 people started saying there was something special about my voice. But when I was 15 or 16 is when I really thought my hobby could become my career.

Jessie J

PeopleSayingVoiceThoughtHobby

The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.

John Boehner

PeaceViolenceWantAggressiveSeek

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

Robert M. La Follette

SilenceWarPartyRightDivine

We actually form the world at every instant, although we're not cognitively aware of that but - and there are people would argue with that to some degree.

Robert Irwin

PeopleWorldDegreeAwareArgue

I do not follow superstitions on court.

Ana Ivanovic

FollowCourtSuperstitions

The beauty of the university world is that you can use it as a microcosm to parody anything in the 'real' world.

Ronny Chieng

BeautyWorldYouRealAnythingUse

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

Mike White

SlowMoviesProductionTVVery

When I was pregnant, I wanted to take some time off from acting, but I still needed a creative outlet for myself. My first two books were created during my pregnancies and after giving birth to my first child.

Josie Bissett

TimeMyselfCreativeChildGiving

One of the strangest things about being an actor is that people you don't know feel that they are allowed to comment on your hair, body, clothes, relationships.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

PeopleHairFeelClothesYouBody

My grandfather talked about James Dean; they were both very much into method acting.

Alia Shawkat

ActingGrandfatherMuchVeryBoth

The 1980s was the era of the blonde cheerleader.

Winona Ryder

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