Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Malander had an idea and was trying to work it out, but it would take him time. Sometimes people never saw things… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory. — Nick Park Copy Share Image
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The police are people as well. All those nasty people aren't really nasty if they'd realise it. — George Harrison Copy Share Image
It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
My career has taken so many different paths to this point that I've come to realise that we're all the same, everywhere… — Mireille Enos Copy Share Image
Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being an atheist means you have to realise that when you die, that really is it. You've got to make the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not a grown up until everybody realises I'm a grown up. When everyone remembers me as the dirty kid singing little… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
When my parents were growing up the world's population was under three billion. During my children's lifetime, it is likely to exceed… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
This Is Me”: ”For the record, I am not gay and all my sexual experiences have been straight. I'm attracted to women,… — Ian Thorpe Copy Share Image
What I didn't understand was that the personal and the political go together. I felt at the time I had to sacrifice… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
Let but a single flash of reality -- the glimpse of a woman from afar or from behind -- enable us to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When you see the flower of happiness on your way, don't take it immediately; sit and watch it and realise how rare… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The bad mood fairy comes to annoy you only when you are actually in a good position, but don't yet realise it! — Jonathan Cainer Copy Share Image
Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. Do not invest in companies that deprive others of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going… — George Carey Copy Share Image
If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before one it is not hard to realise how… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
