William Congreve Quotes
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.William Congreve
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
Cameron Monaghan -
I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
Aaron Neville -
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
Ibrahim Rugova -
The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
Karan Mahajan
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
Rachel Johnson -
I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
Katey Sagal -
People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
Victoria Pendleton -
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
Gabrielle Roy -
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
J. Edgar Hoover
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
Jack Lemmon -
I love the produce section at the grocery store.
Kate McKinnon -
I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
Aaliyah -
You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
Kalpana Chawla -
The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
J. J. Abrams -
Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
Barry Marshall
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It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are not enough.
Idries Shah -
When two, or more men, know of one and the same fact, they are said to be CONSCIOUS of it one to another; which is as much as to know it together.
Thomas Hobbes -
Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.
Brian Tracy -
Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
Vera Farmiga -
Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at the same time, of its close affinity with the gibbon group of anthropoid apes.
Eugene Dubois -
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.
William Congreve