Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
As aromatic plants bestowNo spicy fragrance while they grow;But crush'd or trodden to the ground,Diffuse their balmy sweets around.Oliver Goldsmith
Quotes to Explore
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
Iain Duncan Smith -
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
Yousuf Karsh -
I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
Gary Johnson -
The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
Manly Hall -
A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.
S. Ansky -
Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
Samantha Morton
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I'm always gonna have the darker edgy music; it is always in my pocket because it comes so naturally to me.
Yelawolf -
Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food.
Ferran Adria -
I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
Kate DiCamillo -
Power, privilege, and violence are not, and never were, strictly Southern issues in America.
Nate Powell -
I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will attempt to bring the highest level of my own prose, and to make it sparkle.
Val McDermid -
The truth seems to be that we live in concepts of the imagination before the reason has established them. If this is true, then reason is simply the methodizer of the imagination.
Wallace Stevens
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
We get better search results and we see more appropriate advertising when we let Google know who we are.
James Gleick -
I am a chilled-out person. But if people call me by my name, I hope they pronounce it right. I get called Baron, sometimes Varun, and my surname is often changed to Sobit.
Barun Sobti -
They say pregnancies can differ depending on whether you're carrying a girl or boy, so for me, I think having a little boy is definitely easier on my body - or I'm just better prepared!
Jessie James Decker -
I started in movies in 1963, and the first big one was 'Rosemary's Baby' in 1967. While you don't notice it right away, it finally dawns on you that 80% of the time, you're doing nothing.
Charles Grodin -
Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
Katherine Anne Porter
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I’m a gay man in a woman’s body.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.
Alice Morse Earle -
A lot of people thought my career was over. If you're not releasing records, then something must be wrong. Either the record company doesn't like your music, or you've been dropped. It has to something negative. It's not like you wanted to take a break, or want some balance, or smell the roses.
Gerald Maxwell Rivera -
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we did create Color of Change, an organization which focused on African-Americans in particular, because we felt that there was a big gap there in terms of online advocacy which had left the black community particularly vulnerable.
Van Jones -
It is not possible to erase racism just because African-Americans have reached a level of financial success and crossover appeal.
Farrah Gray -
As aromatic plants bestowNo spicy fragrance while they grow;But crush'd or trodden to the ground,Diffuse their balmy sweets around.
Oliver Goldsmith