T. E. Lawrence Quotes

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

T. E. Lawrence

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: August 16, 1888 - May 19, 1935

Topics

ArchitectureDetailWorldBadWill

I never want to deal with a book once I'm finished writing.

Jhumpa Lahiri

WritingBookWantNeverDealOnce

I'm not looking to do 'Half Nelson' next, but to play anything that's a little more complex is really fun.

John Krasinski

FunLookingPlayMoreNextAnything

When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.

Jeff Koons

PeopleCloseMakeAroundJudgments

Express yourself, don't hurt yourself.

Tommy Wiseau

YourselfHurtExpress Yourself

I love 'Jungle Book' and all the classics growing up, but what I learned about this is that these Disney films are basically classic fables that have been told for thousands of years.

Roger Ross Williams

LoveGrowing UpBookJungleGrowing

Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start.

Jonathan Kozol

StartGameWinnerYouNeverSystem

I was really, really, really feminine and really into cheerleading and really into figure skating and really into gymnastics. Really into everything that other boys weren't.

Jonathan Van Ness

SkatingEverythingFigure Skating

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

Donald Norman

OpinionDesignSingleEveryoneApt

I've done a lot of things away from my homeland.

Compay Segundo

DoneThingsAwayHomelandLot

I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things.

Phillip Lim

LifeWorkLiveFashionYouMean

Now, Tim has been really, really busy, and it's been my job now to kind of deal with everything. And trying to figure out how we balance that, logistically it's a nightmare. But these little jobs make it much easier.

Susan Sarandon

JobBalanceBusyTryingNowKind

In 1994, to motivate me to complete my pilot's license, my good friend, Gregg Maryniak, gave me Charles Lindbergh's autobiography of his solo flight across the Atlantic.

Peter Diamandis

GoodFriendMeFlightPilotSolo

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