Lord Ellesmere Quotes

#1. In 1856, shortly before his death, Lord Ellesmere gave the painting to the new National Portrait Gallery in London as its founding work. As the gallery's first acquisition, it has a certain sentimental prestige, but almost at once its authenticity was doubted.

Bill Bryson

#2. I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the most spectacular I have ever seen.

Charley Pride

#3. The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#4. Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

Aaron Levie

#5. The apex of glorifying God is enjoying Him with the heart. But this is empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened and sustained by true views of God for who He really is

John Piper

#6. was an old Ranger joke and they all smiled.

John Flanagan

#7. Case gradually became aware of the music that pulsed constantly through the cluster. It was called dub, a sensuous mosaic cooked from vast libraries of digitalized pop;

William Gibson

#8. If I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something

Elizabeth Gilbert

#9. He wiped the sweat from his face on his sleeve, squared his shoulders, and strode back into the fray. All there was to do was his duty.

Diana Gabaldon

#10. Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

Lewis Carroll

#11. History has to live with what was here,
clutching and close to fumbling all we had -
it is so dull and gruesome how we die,
unlike writing, life never finishes.

Robert Lowell

#12. I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.

Margaret Spellings

#13. 'In the Cut' was not what readers expected of me. Before it was published, I was seen as a women's writer, which meant that I wrote movingly about flowers and children.

Susanna Moore

#14. I want somebody to tame me; I am too independent; and you would never be able to, I know.

Thomas Hardy