Nicholas Lea Quotes

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

Nicholas Lea

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: June 22, 1962

Topics

FamilyLookingMuseumUpBritish

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Jerry Yang

ChinaAwayWebJustGrownServices

There's different ways to approach music for sleeping. Things like white noise are functional, like a lullaby. This is more like an inquiry, a question about how music and sleep fit together.

Max Richter

MusicTogetherSleepWhiteSleeping

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.

John le Carre

LifeWorkFamilyExperienceBliss

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

John W. Gardner

GoodHumbleWaterExcellenceSociety

My best advice for jet lag is to sleep as much as you can on a plane, no matter what time it is. Then, when you arrive at your destination, do some sort of physical activity.

Tom Daley

TimeBestSleepDestinationAdvice

I'm exploring the long history of women, first of all, being silenced and, secondly, not being taken seriously in the political and public sphere. It's a call to action through understanding and through looking at ourselves again and trying to reformulate the whole question of women and power.

Mary Beard

WomenPowerHistoryLookingAction

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.

Martin Scorsese

GoodTimeNew YorkCityResearch

Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege.

Deborah Sampson

OpportunityControlWorldEnthusiasm

I was made fun of a lot in high school because of the way I sound and the way I was.

Chris Colfer

SchoolFunHigh SchoolWayHighLot

I've been telling people I'm in the best shape of my life, I've been training unbelievably hard.

Bryan Clay

LifeBestTrainingPeopleMy Life

It's about having an active lifestyle, staying healthy, and making the right decisions. Life is about balance. Not everybody wants to run a marathon, but we could all start working out and being active, whether you walk to work or take an extra flight of stairs.

Apolo Ohno

LifeWorkWalkBalanceStartYou

I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.

Pierce Brown

LearningFailureSchoolMeWriting

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