Top 100 Quotes About Adelaide
#1. Wars, crimes, crashes, fires, floods - much of it the social and political equivalent of Adelaide's whooping cough - became the content of what people called the news of the day.
Neil Postman
#2. Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.
Ben Folds
#3. If there is one venue where Pakistan can beat Australia, then Adelaide is that ground
Imran Khan
#5. My first glimpse of the Adelaide Oval was given through the Victor Richardson Gates and up the ramp, and there it spread out before me, a green oasis. It was like another world opening up.
Barry Nicholls
#6. When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.
Lleyton Hewitt
#7. I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson.
Rodney Brooks
#8. I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was a great place because it hired us, for one thing, at a time when it was really rough [for Black performers].
Lena Horne
#9. People are mean to you? Why don't you just punch them in the face?" Meryn asked. Adelaide looked at her appalled. Colton chuckled.
Alanea Alder
#10. Adelaide could not stop thinking about Blazing Night. How much she loved to play with her. How often her games and tournaments were the most enjoyable of all games in the Land of Games. Did she also like playing? When would they play again?
J.M.K. Walkow
#11. Adelaide believes that all children should have enough grown-ups around who love them so that one can tell them to fight, one can tell them not to, and one can tell them not to worry so much.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
#12. I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.
Teresa Palmer
#13. The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago.
Ronald Biggs
#14. I like to make sure I've all the facts before I shoot a man."
And with that, he turned about and headed for the door.
"What?" Adelaide blinked at his back, twice, before moving to intercede. "No! For pity's sake, not this again.
Alissa Johnson
#15. I think it's very, very important that people outside the capital cities, not just Sydney and Melbourne but also Brisbane Perth Adelaide and so on, have the greatest access to the best cultural experiences they can in both the performing arts and the visual arts.
George Brandis
#16. Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens.
Robin Boyd
#17. I'd always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don't have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility.
Teresa Palmer
#18. I once travelled to Adelaide on Emu Airways. I was 5,000 ft up in the air when someone pointed out to me that emus can't fly
Billy Connolly
#19. Imagine hearing a group of drunken warriors shouting your name and following it with a must die . Suddenly I missed my superspecial tagline: Great-granddaughter of Adelaide Wallingford. The tagline Must Die totally sucked.
Suzanne Selfors
#20. Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education.
Geoff Mulgan
#21. Three grey women walk with me
Fate and Grief and Memory.
My fate brought grief; my grief must be
With me through Eternity,
Such thy power, memory.
Three grey women walk with me.
Adelaide Crapsey
#22. Look up ...
From bleakening hills
Blows down the light, first breath
Of wintry wind ... look up, and scent
The snow!
Adelaide Crapsey
#23. I really like being thrown into the works. Many actors, I have found, have this as a common trait. We had to, as children, adapt to various situations with either a military family or things like that.
Adelaide Clemens
#24. Being on TV is kind of the best job in the world.
Adelaide Kane
#25. When something is tragic you never really forget it.
Sophia Olson
#26. Wouldst thou find my ashes? Look
In the pages of my book;
And as these thy hand doth turn,
Know here is my funeral urn.
Adelaide Crapsey
#27. As it
Were tissue of silver
I'll wear, O Fate, thy grey,
And go mistily radiant, clad
Like the moon.
Adelaide Crapsey
#28. One by one the sands are flowing,
One by one the moments fall;
Some are coming, some are going;
Do not strive to grasp them all.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#29. Seen on a night in November
How frail
Above the bulk
Of crashing water hangs,
Autumn, evanescent, wan,
The moon.
Adelaide Crapsey
#32. Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.
Adelaide Hasse
#33. I had a moment a few years ago where I wasn't sure if I was acting for myself or because people expected it of me. A bit of a crisis of faith, I suppose. I did some soul-searching, took a break and decided I was going to live my life only for me.
Adelaide Kane
#34. No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#35. I pulled myself together. I could do this. Until then, Hugh was the most famous person I'd ever met. Well, Hugh had just been star-slapped!
Harriet Jones, On Our Own Terms
Adelaide Hipwell
#36. For a moment, all I could think of was my cousin Peter. He was twice my age - and married. By the rules of decent, he would be the one to inherit the Rothford title if I died without children. Whenever he was in town, he'd stop by and ask how I was feeling
Richelle Mead
#38. Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one
Have limits to its mercy; God has none.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#39. Ere the horne'd owl hoot
Once and twice and thrice there shall
Go among the blind brown worms
News of thy great burial;
When the pomp is passed away,
'Here's a King,' the worms shall say.
Adelaide Crapsey
#40. If it
Were lighter touch
Than petal of flower resting
On grass, oh still too heavy it were,
Too heavy!
Adelaide Crapsey
#41. The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#42. I am half Scottish. My father is an expat from Glasgow, and on my mother's side there's a bit of French, a bit of Scottish, a bit of Irish.
Adelaide Kane
#43. Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#45. In your
Curled petals what ghosts
Of blue headlands and seas,
What perfumed immortal breath sighing
Of Greece.
Adelaide Crapsey
#46. I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.
Adelaide Clemens
#47. I'm a big fan of Tom Stoppard's work, and have been since I was in school where I studied him.
Adelaide Clemens
#49. Sea-foam
And coral! Oh, I'll
Climb the great pasture rocks
And dream me mermaid in the sun's
Gold flood.
Adelaide Crapsey
#50. Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.
Adelaide Clemens
#51. Half my life is full of sorrow,
Half of joy, still fresh and new;
One of these lives is a fancy,
But the other one is true.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#52. Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.
Adelaide Crapsey
#53. I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.
Adelaide Clemens
#54. I don't really watch a lot of TV, to be honest. I'm more of a movie girl, or I Netflix stuff.
Adelaide Kane
#55. In a photo shoot, you have to be very comfortable in your own skin. It's all about confidence-boosting and putting on armor.
Adelaide Clemens
#56. I wouldn't give up my career for somebody. The most important thing to me is my work, and reaching people through my work. It's so important to me. It's my passion.
Adelaide Kane
#57. I didn't know what was going to happen with 'Teen Wolf.' I was only scheduled to do four episodes for them, but they kept me on, and I was like, 'Sweet! I'm still employed! That's awesome!' And then, they let me know that they were considering having me for the second half of the season.
Adelaide Kane
#58. It was difficult for me to feel my feelings, so I just buried them. Then I found that acting was a way for me to get them out. But now that I'm a reasonably sane adult, acting is more about my trying to engage other people: Acting is cathartic for the viewer as well.
Adelaide Kane
#59. I live in L.A. and I do have wonderful friends; I moved there when I was 19 so I developed a close knit group of friends, none of whom are actors, none of which are Australian, but I couldn't do it long term.
Adelaide Clemens
#60. Still as
On windless nights
The moon-cast shadows are,
So still will be my heart when I
Am dead.
Adelaide Crapsey
#61. Is it as plainly in our living shown,
By which way the wind hath blown?
Adelaide Crapsey
#62. I learned by watching my favorite shows. I would just rewind and say the words back, until they sounded right to me. I never studied the American accent, in terms of getting a teacher or taking phonetics classes. I've always been a good mimic. It really wasn't that hard for me.
Adelaide Kane
#63. Reap, reap the grain and gather
The sweet grapes from the vine;
Our Lord's mother is weeping,
She hath nor bread nor wine;
She is weeping. The Queen of Heaven,
She hath nor bread nor wine.
Adelaide Crapsey
#64. Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#65. Oh Lady, let the sad tears fall
To speak thy pain,
Gently as through the silver dusk
The silver rain.
Oh, let thy bosom breathe its grief
In such soft sigh
As hath the wind in gardens where
Pale roses die.
Adelaide Crapsey
#66. The old
Old winds that blew
When chaos was, what do
They tell the clattered trees that I
Should weep?
Adelaide Crapsey
#67. Just now,
Out of the strange
Still dusk ... as strange, as still ...
A white moth flew ... Why am I grown
So cold?
Adelaide Crapsey
#68. You can be born with a title, but not respect. You have to earn that.
Adelaide Kane
#69. And if the many sayings of the wise
Teach of submission I will not submit
But with a spirit all unreconciled
Flash an unquenched defiance to the stars.
Adelaide Crapsey
#70. Not thou,
White rose, but thy
Ensanguined sister is
The dear companion of my heart's
Shed blood.
Adelaide Crapsey
#71. Auditioning is extremely bizarre. Just being an actor is extremely bizarre, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
Adelaide Kane
#72. Scarlet the poppies
Blue the corn-flowers,
Golden the wheat.
Gold for the Eternal:
Blue for Our Lady:
Red for the five
Wounds of her Son.
Adelaide Crapsey
#73. One by one bright gifts from heaven
Joys are sent thee here below;
Take them readily when given,
Ready, too, to let them go.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#74. With night's
Dim veil and blue
I will cover my eyes,
I will bind close my eyes that are
So weary.
Adelaide Crapsey
#75. I knowNot these my handsAnd yet I think there wasA woman like me once had handsLike these.
Adelaide Crapsey
#76. I've done a lot of independent film, which are short shoots that are usually four to six weeks, max. I enjoy everything. After one particular experience of work, I like to go in the opposite direction and do a short film, or something else.
Adelaide Clemens
#77. Judge not; the workings of his brain
And of his heart thou canst not see;
What looks to thy dim eyes a stain,
In God's pure light may only be
A scar, brought from some well-won field,
Where thou wouldst only faint and yield.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#78. Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#79. Dost thou
Not feel them slip,
How cold! how cold! the moon's
Thin wavering finger-tips, along
Thy throat?
Adelaide Crapsey
#80. Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.
Adelaide Clemens
#82. No guile?
Nay, but so strangely
He moves among us. Not this
Man but Barabbas! Release to us
Barabbas!
Adelaide Crapsey
#84. I remember vividly one distinct memory of arriving in Hong Kong and being the only blonde haired girl in this sea of international students, and thinking, 'Oh, my God. There's no hiding here.'
Adelaide Clemens
#85. Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earth's weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger On her charm'd way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#86. Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#88. These be Three silent things: The Falling snow ... the hour Before the dawn ... the mouth of one Just dead.
Adelaide Crapsey
#89. Pain ebbs,
And like cool balm,
An opiate weariness
Settles on eye-lids, on relaxed
Pale wrists.
Adelaide Crapsey
#90. I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.
Adelaide Clemens
#91. If my performance touches someone or helps someone understand themselves a little better or gives them a laugh, I feel like I gave them something. I want to touch people's lives and bring them along with me.
Adelaide Kane
#92. Our Beasts and our Thieves and our Chattels
Have weight for good or for ill;
But the Poor are only His image,
His presence, His word, His will; -
And so Lazarus lies at our doorstep
And Dives neglects him still.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#93. Sun and wind and beat of sea,
Great lands stretching endlessly ...
Where be bonds to bind the free?
All the world was made for me!
Adelaide Crapsey
#94. I'm still good friends with everybody from 'Teen Wolf.' I still see them, and I go to Jeff Davis' for 'Teen Wolf' night when I can. It was such a rewarding experience. That's such a fun set.
Adelaide Kane
#95. Thou hast
Drawn laughter from
A well of secret tears
And thence so elvish it rings, -mocking
And sweet.
Adelaide Crapsey
#96. Hours are golden links, God's token
Reaching heaven; but one by one
Take them, lest the chain be broken
Ere the pilgrimage be done.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#97. But me
They cannot touch,
Old age and death.the strange
And ignominious end of old
Dead folk!
Adelaide Crapsey
#98. I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don't like, and you hate her for a while - then you love her again. I'd like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.
Adelaide Kane
#99. My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.
Adelaide Crapsey
#100. My main goal as an actor, with my craft or whatever poncy way you want to say it, is to always take the audience with me. To make them feel for me, or to make them hate me, I want a reaction. I want their emotions. The worst reaction someone can have is, "eh."
Adelaide Kane
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