Top 100 Tudor Quotes
#1. London matters to me because it's the center of what I do for a living and has been since Tudor times.
William Monahan
#2. 'The Leaves Are Fading' had something of a vogue when Antony Tudor made it in 1975, largely because of Gelsey Kirkland's ravishing performance.
Robert Gottlieb
#3. My official field was Tudor-Stuart England; I also considered myself reasonably competent when it came to Renaissance and Reformation Europe.
Lauren Willig
#4. I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.
Ilka Chase
#5. What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?
Chuck Palahniuk
#6. I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.
Judith Jamison
#7. Romanians have a particular love for poetry and have a beautiful, vivid language. The poets they love are not versifiers like Vadim Tudor, but genuinely complex mystical souls like Mircea Cartarescu.
Andrei Codrescu
#8. Chekyns upon soppes" (basically chicken on cinnamon toast) from the 1545 early Tudor cookbook A Propre Newe Booke of Cokerye: Chekyns upon soppes. Take sorel sauce a good quantitie and put in Sinamon and suger and lette it boyle and poure it upon the soppes then laie on the chekyns.
Dan Jurafsky
#9. My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.
Deborah Harkness
#10. As they say in Hollywood, that's a wrap! And the oscar goes to Tudor North and Tash Munro for an outstanding debut performance in a sex scene!
Tillie Cole
#11. But Tudor mansions on manicured grounds didn't look right with their grand front doors wide open to the night. It was like a debutante flashing her bra thanks to a wardrobe malfunction.
J.R. Ward
#12. Strangely, the thing I listen to 75% of the time, when I'm exercising with my headphones on is English Tudor/Elizabethan music, so music from about 1450 to the early 1600's.
Tod Machover
#13. I love all history because it's storytelling. But, I will always have a special place in my heart for the Tudor dynasty.
Natalie
#14. Of course I had written a film about Elizabeth I, and I loved the Tudor period, and I think at the time Working Title and I had debated on whether to do Elizabeth I or Henry VIII. I'd always wanted to do Henry VIII. Like Elizabeth, I'd had this feeling that it had never properly been addressed.
Michael Hirst
#15. She'd been naked in her pool, floating on her back, when she realized that her life - two kids, a three-story Tudor, an Audi wagon - was not what she wanted.
Anthony Doerr
#16. Two skylarks weaving a nest flew into the gaping mouths of Serafim and Old Man Tudor, and deposited their young. Leaving the chicks to chirp, the birds flew off to the field for sustenance.
Vladimir Lorchenkov
#17. In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.
Charlotte Smith
#18. To recount these histories is like unravelling a thread: one means only to tell one little part, but then another comes in, and another, for they are all part of the same garment - Tudor, Lancaster, York, Plantagenet.
Margaret George
#19. If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine and wafers, it is a free country. But for a Christian sect to claim ownership of the legal definition of a human relationship is way out of order.
Simon Jenkins
#20. We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.
Damian Lewis
#21. The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going back to colonial times, and in English history from Tudor times.
Gertrude Himmelfarb
#22. He who gives back at first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs success, has never been, is not, and never will be, a hero in love, war or business. - Frederick Tudor
Gavin Weightman
#23. Her unusual dark hair and sultry eyes made her stand out--- Anne Boleyn was Tudor England's Angelina Jolie amid a sea of Reese Witherspoons.
Kris Waldherr
#24. I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.
Sharon Horgan
#25. I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars.
Lauren Willig
#26. Much of my adult life has been spent fighting for equal opportunity, and the idea that I would support limiting opportunity for any segment of society, particularly women, is antithetical to who I am and what I have done.
Paul Tudor Jones
#28. Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego. Always question yourself and your ability. Don't ever feel that you are very good. The second you do, you are dead.
Paul Tudor Jones
#29. I very much enjoy things like '24,' although I suspect that's run its course.
Will Tudor
#30. My chest aches and swells at the same time. Wow - happy and sad will just about knock you over when they hit together.
Tudor Robins
#31. Macro-trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.
Paul Tudor Jones
#32. The best part of re-working a story is falling in love with the characters all over again.
M.E. Tudor
#33. I am more scared now that I was at any point since I began trading, because I recognize how ephemeral success can be in this business. I know that to be successful, I have to be frightened. My biggest hits have always come after I have had a great period and I started to think that I knew something.
Paul Tudor Jones
#34. Take the classic experiment of using ordinary feedback: just take the output of something and feed it back into the input. Those of us who do that have had really rich experiences. And it is obvious that that line of experimentation can continue.
David Tudor
#35. My body can't demonstrate. It isn't willing to explore movements the way it used to. I've always had to find the movement in myself then show it in myself. If I've got the sense of movement for the character, I expect the dancer to get it too.
Antony Tudor
#36. I take the view that since I do these things everyone else does so as well.
H.G. Tudor
#37. When you hit rock bottom, don't forget you still have something to share or to give to the others. This is where redemption lays.
Robert S. Tudor
#38. I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste.
David Tudor
#39. I think that all of them must have lost their minds and have forgotten everything we were to each other. I said that they were no sisters to me, that I would forget them. But they have gone further than this: they have become my enemies.
Philippa Gregory
#40. You can not have significance in this life if it is all about you. You get your significance, you find your joy in life through service and sacrifice - it's pure and simple.
Paul Tudor Jones
#41. After a while size means nothing. It gets back to whether you're making 100% rate of return on $10,000 or $100 million dollars. It doesn't make any difference.
Paul Tudor Jones
#42. Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and ... disposable.
David Tudor
#43. By the middle of Henry VIII's reign, the white meats - that is, dairy products - were considered common fare and people from all classes would eat meat whenever they could get it.
Clarissa Dickson Wright
#44. 236 - "Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change." - Wayne W. Dyer
Tudor Wild
#45. Life isn't long enough to do all you could accomplish. And what a privilege even to be alive. In spite of all the pollutions and horrors, how beautiful this world is. Supposing you only saw the stars once every year. Think what you would think. The wonder of it!
Tasha Tudor
#46. Typical horror movies of the 1930s were often given a period setting in what looked like a kind of stylized 19th century ... the sense of 'elsewhen', of distance, lent to many of these movies by their settings. They exist, as it were, in a 19th century of the mind.
Andrew Tudor
#47. I loved The Wind in the Willows ... Walt Disney should be sued for cheapening it as he did. Imagine it, Mickey Mousing all those nice characters. I'm surprised he didn't do it with the New Testament.
Tasha Tudor
#48. We have ripped the humanity out of our companies. It's threatening the very underpinnings of our society.
Paul Tudor Jones
#49. As I've told my three daughters, all of whom I've at one time encouraged to go into macro trading, any man or woman can do anything to which they set their heart and mind.
Paul Tudor Jones
#50. Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow.
Andrew Tudor
#51. I'm always thinking about losing money as opposed to making money. Don't focus on making money, focus on protecting what you have
Paul Tudor Jones
#52. Outside, a cry fell through the night like a dying star.
Joss Alexander
#53. That cotton trade was almost the deal breaker for me. It was at that point that I said, Mr. Stupid, why risk everything on one trade? Why not make your life a pursuit of happiness rather than pain?
Paul Tudor Jones
#54. He has carefully studied the benefits of various strategies of deception in order to "master" the world in order to achieve freedom and autonomy. He is convinced that a deceptive lifestyle would be appropriate in order for him to get even with those that he believes have let him suffer.
H.G. Tudor
#55. You will never see as many great women investors or traders as men. Period. End of story.
Paul Tudor Jones
#56. You should see my corgis at sunset in the snow. It's their finest hour. About five o'clock they glow like copper. Then they come in and lie in front of the fire like a string of sausages.
Tasha Tudor
#57. There is no more compassionate and effective way to help poor people in New York City than to give to Robin Hood.
Paul Tudor Jones
#58. Nowadays, people are so jeezled up. If they took some chamomile tea and spent more time rocking on the porch in the evening listening to the liquid song of the hermit thrush, they might enjoy life more.
Tasha Tudor
#59. When you get a range expansion, the market is sending you a very loud, clear signal that the market is getting ready to move in the direction of that expansion.
Paul Tudor Jones
#60. I believe the very best money is made at the market turns. Everyone says you get killed trying to pick tops and bottoms and you make all your money by playing the trend in the middle. Well for twelve years I have been missing the meat in the middle but I have made a lot of money at tops and bottoms.
Paul Tudor Jones
#61. First if all, never play macho man in the market. Second, never overtrade. My major problem was not the number of points I lost on the trade, but that I was trading far too many contracts relative to the equity in the accounts that I handled.
Paul Tudor Jones
#62. It's exciting to see things coming up again, plants that you've had twenty or thirty years. It's like seeing an old friend.
Tasha Tudor
#63. Occasional observers of horror movies have a nasty habit of asking why it is that there is always some poor misguided soul who opens the door to the cellar or to the attic or to the crypt when it's quite clear that no sane person would even consider it.
Andrew Tudor
#64. There is no peace that cannot be found in the present moment.
Tasha Tudor
#65. I don't make proper flower arrangements; mine just grow, like the garden.
Tasha Tudor
#66. The whole world is simply nothing more than a flow chart for capital.
Paul Tudor Jones
#69. On the whole, when I travel to different countries, I like to find the hidden places, so I tend to avoid the cities - but in terms of the ease of getting about, finding what you need, the excitement, that undercurrent of whatever you want it to be, it's got to be London.
Will Tudor
#70. I spend my day trying to make myself as happy and relaxed as I can be. If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them.
Paul Tudor Jones
#71. The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.
David Tudor
#72. Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.
David Tudor
#73. The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge.
Paul Tudor Jones
#74. I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.
David Tudor
#75. A man who has drank his drinks cold at the same expense for one week can never be presented with them warm again.
Frederic Tudor
#76. Trading gives you an incredibly intense feeling of what life is all about.
Paul Tudor Jones
#77. If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.
Antony Tudor
#78. Where tradition tells us that people are best kept under control and denied freedom of expression and action, humanistic psychology argues for liberation, more open decision-making and a sharing of power and control.
Keith Tudor
#79. I believe that great success is possible in any field - from music to mathematics to macro trading.
Paul Tudor Jones
#80. South Africa, it's like the little asshole of the whole world - it's, like, the bottom. It's, like, in the dark depths of the hallway.
Watkin Tudor Jones
#81. If trading is like chess, then macro is like three-dimensional chess.
Paul Tudor Jones
#82. I would like to tell all dancers to forget themselves and the desire for self display. They must become completely absorbed in the dance. Even in a classical variation there should never be any thought of a dancer doing a variation
he should become identified with it.
Antony Tudor
#83. Have you ever studied a snake's face? - how optimistic they look. They have an eternal smile.
Tasha Tudor
#84. I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.
David Tudor
#85. There is no other dog that can compare to a Corgi. They're the epitome of beauty.
Tasha Tudor
#86. In terms of pure comedic value, 'Tootsie' is brilliant.
Will Tudor
#87. Corgis are enchanted. You need only to see them in the moonlight to know this.
Tasha Tudor
#89. Sometimes failure is merely chasing you off the wrong road and onto the right one.
Paul Tudor Jones
#90. Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself.
Antony Tudor
#91. It is not that we had any unfair knowledge that other people didn't have, it is just that we did our homework. People just don't want to believe that anyone can break away from the crowd and rise above mediocrity.
Paul Tudor Jones
#92. The past is a reality that exists just beyond our reach.
Joanna Denny
#93. The concept of paying one-hundred-and-something times earnings for any company for me is just anathema. Having said that, at the end of the day, your job is to buy what goes up and to sell what goes down so really who gives a damn about PE's?
Paul Tudor Jones
#94. I used to do prank calls as these people and try to convince certain hoteliers that I was someone else. At the time, I used to do people like Tony Blair and William Hague. It was very good fun hearing people kind of thinking, 'Hmm, is that who I think it is?'
Will Tudor
#95. In 'Play Misty For Me', its inexplicably assertive knife-woman nearly manages the impossible task of slaughtering Clint Eastwood.
Andrew Tudor
#96. The English Church, it was claimed, was Catholicism purified and reformed. And what was the nature of this reform? The truth was that nobody, least of all Henry himself, had much idea.
Edward Rutherfurd
#97. Westernization is an often-used word in Korea, and can be applied to something considered cold, lacking in jeong, and going against traditional Korean values. To suggest that Korean households are now "Westernized," whatever that may mean exactly, would be a gross oversimplification.
Daniel Tudor
#98. When I'm working in the barn or house I often think of all the errors I've made in my life. But then I quickly put that behind me and think of water lilies. They will always eradicate unpleasant thoughts. Or goslings are equally comforting in their own way.
Tasha Tudor
#99. What really got me thinking about illustrating children's books was I discovered Hugh Thompson's illustrations for The Vicar of Wakefield in my mother's library and I looked at it and said, 'That's what I'm going to do.
Tasha Tudor
#100. Trading is very competitive and you have to be able to handle getting your butt kicked.
Paul Tudor Jones
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