Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Eyeliner is a go-to for me, and gold has always been a color that I really like. It's reminiscent of a lion; it's a strong color.

Jillian Hervey

LionMeGoldColorStrongAlways

I'm not macho, I'm not a Mel Gibson sort of person.

Ang Lee

PersonMachoSortGibson

When you're learning how to do magic, the first rule is 'never reveal a secret.' In a way, by telling someone I'm a magician, it kind of gives away the best secret of all... How interesting to take the magician out of the equation of a magic show.

Michael Carbonaro

LearningBestInterestingSomeone

My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena.

John Roos

PeopleProblemsUnderstandingYou

I'm never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.

Stephen Hawking

GoodMorningNeverGoingAfternoon

If four years of university can increase your effectiveness of what you can do for others in the name of Christ, it is the best investment that you can make. But if the education is simply to get a job to make a lot of money, you have to raise the question of why you're doing it.

Tony Campolo

EducationBestMoneyJobNameDoing

'It's A Wonderful Life' still makes me cry happy tears, and my more recent favorite, 'Elf.'

Mary Page Keller

LifeHappyMeTearsCryMore

The tools of 'The Prosperous Heart' help people to embrace the life that they actually have, where they often find that they already have 'enough.'

Julia Cameron

LifeHeartPeopleToolsEnoughHelp

The first job I got was a production of 'Fame - the Musical,' at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts, and it got me my Equity card, too. I waited 12 hours to be seen for it, though!

Jonathan Groff

MusicJobMeTheatreFameFirst

People didn't know until I said it publicly that I had a nasty side. It was never obvious to the fans. I never lost my head, you see. Never got sent off.

Johnny Giles

PeopleYouLostKnowSaidNever

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

Arthur Erickson

ArchitectureTransparencyNewEurope

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

Philip Johnson

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