Occupies Quotes

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

(Richard Hawley occupies a special place not only in the history of pop music, but also in the history of Home Entertainment. Hawley`s album Coles Corner, an existential ode to the city of Sheffield that is sung with a crooner`s sense of melody and romantic melancholy, stands out as one of the great records of recent years. And he is the first person in five years to cook the Home Entertainment team a square meal.) You couldn`t come to Sheffield and not try a bit of Henderson`s Relish, ... That`s not right, is it?

Being in a place like the Royal Ballet School and part of an environment where there is so much discipline, where everyone works so hard, it just completely occupies your life. You literally live it and breath it every single day; it becomes who you are. And that, I think, is very good preparation for really anything you do in life.

(Richard Hawley occupies a special place not only in the history of pop music, but also in the history of Home Entertainment. Hawley`s album Coles Corner, an existential ode to the city of Sheffield that is sung with a crooner`s sense of melody and romantic melancholy, stands out as one of the great records of recent years. And he is the first person in five years to cook the Home Entertainment team a square meal.) You couldn`t come to Sheffield and not try a bit of Henderson`s Relish, ... That`s not right, is it?

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

One`s work usually occupies more than half of one`s waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day`s insolence.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

I`ve been around long enough to know that football only occupies a portion of what I do in life,

Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the privileges attached to the rank he occupies in the commonwealth, nor act as if he were qualified as a ruler by birth and forcibly prevent others from reach­ing the higher levels of the hierarchy through their own merit. He may hand down everything else, so long as it is material and not pertaining to his person, for it may be acquired and disposed of as property and may over a series of generations create considerable inequalities in wealth among the mem­bers of the commonwealt. But he may not prevent his sub­ordinates from raising themselves to his own level if they are able and entitled to do so by their talent, industry and good fortune. If this were not so, he would be allowed to practise coercion without himself being subject to coercive counter-measures from others, and would thus be more than their fellow-subject.