Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery famous quotes

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Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.
-- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

#Photography #Silence #Records
A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.
-- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

#Men #Ordinary #Politics
Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position as now, plus a public and humiliating confession of impotence.
-- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

#Finding Yourself #Firsts #Politics
Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.
-- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

#People #Thrifty #Generous
How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human -- for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.
-- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

#Angel #Past #Men
The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.
-- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

#Empires #British #Commonwealth
Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral.
-- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

#Funeral #Lord #Chiefs
Lloyd George is a one-eyed fellow in blinkers.
-- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

#Blinkers #Fellows
We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators.
-- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

#Party #Interesting #Groups

Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."
In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon as I became familiar with the camera, I was intrigued with the possibilities of expression it offered. It was like a discovery for me.
Hello Rush," she said, breaking the silence. The sound of her voice almost sent me to my knees. God, I'd missed her voice. "Blaire," I managed to say, terrified that I'd scare her away just by speaking.
Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.
When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen
I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.
There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.
Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion.

Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery famous quotes

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