Top 27 Beckford Quotes

#1. You can get a new phone or new trainers (sneakers) but you've only got one body so you have to look after it. I don't smoke, or drink a lot of alcohol, and I train almost every day.

Tyson Beckford

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#2. I thank God every day. That's all I can do. That, and try to help all those other guys who are trying to do what I did.

Tyson Beckford

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#3. I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.

Hunter S. Thompson

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#4. Emerson said, "To the dull mind, all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light." The illumined mind has shifted to the light.

Sam Beckford

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#5. And I've learned to hit the brakes at these kinds of stop signs rather than t-boning a tanker truck filled with 200 proof mediocrity.

Benjamin Kane Ethridge

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#6. Apparently falling slowly is a scientific impossibility. Falling means that you're not in control, doesn't it? I should've considered that.

Victoria Dahl

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#7. Woe to the rash mortal who seeks to know that of which he should remain ignorant, and to undertake that which surpasseth his power!

William Beckford

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#8. A fish might more easily live on the apex of a rock than a man accustomed to crime live a life of virtue. ("The Story of Prince Barkiarokh")

William Beckford

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#9. I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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#10. I fear I shall never be ... good for anything in this world, but composing airs, building towers, forming gardens, collecting old Japan, and writing a journey to China or the Moon.

William Thomas Beckford

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#11. Virtue is too often merely local.

Samuel Johnson

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#12. Ray Gomez is truly an unsung hero in American music.

Stanley Clarke

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#13. If you seem to be happy in this place of solitude, you will acquire a great reputation for wisdom, and I know, by my own experience, that under the cloak of a great reputation it is possible to hide whole treasures of folly. ("The Story of Princess Zulkais and the Prince Kalilah")

William Beckford

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#14. I played a girl. There's really nothing controversial about her. She's just fine. She has to be fine in order to make Sarah Jessica's character pop, I say I just play a white girl in that movie.

Claire Danes

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#15. Food, like your money, should be working for you!

Rita Deattrea Beckford M.D.

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#16. Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

Victor Hugo

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#17. Fear is just a misunderstanding of your immortality.

Vironika Tugaleva

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#18. The only person he cared about was the one he thought he could mould her into.

Emma Holly

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#19. If you have fairy blood, even in the tiniest degree, you must live close to Fairy Land, and eat a little fairy food, or else you will always be hungry.

Robert Moss

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#20. Shortly after we were in bed I began my story, but made it so absurd, so long, and so tiresome, that, as my intention was, I sent her to sleep, and should have gone to sleep myself - but dark plots are ever wakeful. ("The Story of Prince Barkiarokh")

William Beckford

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#21. Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just see what you need to.

Matthew Good

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#22. It is a great evil to look upon mankind with too clear vision. You seem to be living among wild beasts, and you become a wild beast yourself. (""The Story of Prince Alasi and the Princess Firouzkah")

William Beckford

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#23. At these words, the fathers of the fifty boys cried out aloud; the mothers repeated their exclamations an octave higher; whilst the rest, without knowing the cause, soon drowned the voices of both, with still louder lamentations of their own.

William Beckford

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#24. Beckford is not a suicide spot. Beckford is a place to get rid of troublesome women.

Paula Hawkins

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#25. The problem is not that you have problems; the problem is that you see having problems as a problem.

Maurice Makalu

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#26. No course was open to me save to leap, with eyes self-bound, into the yawning abyss of the future.

William Beckford

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#27. He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.

Seneca.

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