Fronts Quotes - Page 34

• The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Real, Deceit, Our Actions

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.62

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• No matter how grouchy you're feeling,
  You'll find the smile more or less healing.
  It grows in a wreath
  All around the front teeth -
  Thus preserving the face from congealing.

  Anthony Euwer

  Smile, Laughter, Healing

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• He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

  Leonard Louis Levinson

  Friendship, Sarcastic, Fine

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• Why does soldiers leave the protection of his trench hole in the ground and go forward in the face of shot and shell? It is because of the leader who is in front of him and his comrades who are around him. Comradeship makes a man feel warm and courageous when all his instincts tend to make him cold and afraid.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Military, Men, Leader

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• As we conquer peak after peak we see in front of us regions full of interest and beauty, but we do not see our goal, we do not see the horizon; in the distance tower still higher peaks, which will yield to those who ascend them still wider prospects, and deepen the feeling, the truth of which is emphasized by every advance in science, that 'Great are the Works of the Lord'.

  Joseph John Thomson

  Distance, Yield, Goal

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• (A manager) once confided in me she liked to picture in her mind's eye that every employee was wearing one of those sandwich billboard signs. On the front side, the sign would read 'Appreciate Me' and on the back side 'Make Me Feel Important.'

  James Hunter

  Eye, Appreciate, Mind

  James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.109, Crown Business

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• Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'

  Bill Nighy

  Play, Ideas, Two

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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• I grew up in front of a TV.

  Jemaine Clement

  Tvs, Grew Up, Grew

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. October 30, 2009.

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• It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.

  Francois Rabelais

  Oxen, Order, Folly

  "Gargantua" by François Rabelais, ch. XI, 1534.

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• How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions.

  Charles de Lint

  Children, People, House

  Charles De Lint (2000). “Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks”, Subterranean

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• Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.

  Mae West

  Women, Luxury, Titles

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• Even in front of nature one must compose.

  Edgar Degas

  Composition

  Edgar Degas, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Degas by Degas”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct nature, I incorporate myself into it; it directs me. I can only work with a model. The sight of human forms nourishes and comforts me.

  Auguste Rodin

  Sight, Portraits, Comfort

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• Happiness is right in front of you.

  Hafez

  Happiness

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• I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front.

  Paul Cezanne

  Portraiture, Shirts

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• We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Animal, Soldier, March

  Harold Bloom, Erich Maria Remarque (2008). “Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front”, p.89, Infobase Publishing

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• I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it out and begin again, searching for its counterpart. When it appears I invariably find that the thing I draw is at my elbow, it is out of the window, or has been standing at my front door for a long time.

  Sean William Scott

  Doors, Long, Elbows

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• The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience.

  Ben Kingsley

  Numbers, Choices, Events

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• If the glass there in front of me astounds me more than all the glasses I've seen in painting, and if I even think that the greatest architectural wonder of the world couldn't affect me more than this glass, it's really not worth while going to the Indies to see some temple or other when I have as much and more right in front of me.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Thinking, Glasses, World

  Alberto Giacometti, David Sylvester, Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd (1977). “Thirteen bronzes: Alberto Giacometti”

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• There is a lovely warmness about feelings of nostalgia as though in one's head one is putting on a pair of comfy old slippers and curling up in front of a fire.

  Bill Geist

  Fire, Feelings, Lovely

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• It's interesting that at a time when she could have differentiated herself from the ranks of [Democratic National Committee Chairman] Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi and the far left ranks of the Democratic Party, she chose to join those on the front ranks of the blame game, It would have been interesting if she had shown some level of restraint.

  Brian Jones

  Party, Games, Interesting

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• I have never farted in front of a guy I fancied before - I was so embarrassed!.

  Rebecca Loos

  Guy, Fancy, Embarrassed

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• Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.

  Frankie Avalon

  People, House, President

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• Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.

  Bill Nighy

  Girl, Memories, Fall

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• It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.

  Eli Manning

  Basketball, Football, Growing Up

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