There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries.
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
I'd much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it's right and not talking to the other.
The prime reason behind making 'A Flying Jatt' was that there are barely any 'desi' superhero films in Bollywood which Indians can relate to. I wanted to exhibit that a superhero is more than just superpowers and leads a normal life like the others do. I wanted to attach a human factor to a superhero.
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
First off, from reading the script and knowing that I was going to be apart of it, I'm a huge 'Wizard of Oz' fan so to be involved in something that was connected to the original books was really exciting for me and it was very different than anything I had ever worked on before.
Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.
I don't care about names attached to the script. That doesn't matter to me. All things being equal, I would like to work with a good script with a good director, and the part I play is of less important than those two factors.
Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
I think a lot of my fans are anxious for more than just my singles. They know I'm a dreamer. They know I'm someone who is real spiritual. I love to have fun, and I always have fun songs - songs you can party to. But I also always have songs you can live to, that when you're depressed, it may lift your spirits up.
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
You'll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.
A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity.
In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.
Because of the fact I look a lot younger than I really am, I think, I end up getting these girl-next-door roles. I mean, I'm not a Gemma Arterton type as far as I can tell.
I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.
In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.
My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.
For a lot of actors, there's a sort of code of honor around playing something other than yourself, which I just don't have. I love feeling like I'm - I won't even say acting out, but performing in some deep seam of my consciousness or my family's consciousness or my past. That's really amusing to me.
It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
I don't think there's anything better than talk therapy.
TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.
Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.
An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it.
I love novels, and I read them more than anything, but stories cut in sharp and hard and are able to reveal things in a different way: they're highly charged, a slightly newer form, and inherently more contemporary.
I think when you work on a Woody Allen film the actors become a real company, probably more than on any other film.
