Lawrence Durrell Quotes

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

Lawrence Durrell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 27, 1912 - November 7, 1990

Topics

LifeDailyArtDaily LifePeople

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Jimmy Carter

DreamsBeautifulPeopleBecomeHopes

Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

Joe Rogan

SportsBodyYearsCompeteOnlyYour

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

Jodie Foster

AmbitionMoviesPopcornBigProduce

The message of body acceptance built on Jennifer Lawrence's soundbites only empowers those who are willing to ignore the fact that her statements reinforce our current cultural views rather than subverting them.

Jennifer Armintrout

AcceptanceIgnoreBodyHerWilling

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

John Huston

PeopleEnoughKnowWillTryHard

There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns.

Andy Richter

MountainPeopleBootsTopNaked

The use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really did work.

Michael Hayden

WorkAgainstUsMadeDidReally

Injustice can never be stood for.

Amber Heard

InjusticeNeverStood

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

Stephen Hawking

GodScienceUniverseNeedExplain

I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.

Tracey Emin

SlowAmericaKindFirstRightJust

Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed.

Tony Campolo

GodPowerfulListenWellWouldWho

Do I feel like I still need to prove myself? Absolutely. And I want to feel that way, and I like that.

Mary Steenburgen

MyselfFeelWantProveWayNeed

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