David Garrick Quotes

Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll,Who wrote like an angel, and talk’d like poor Poll.

David Garrick

• Lies
• Angel

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Time
  • Will
  • Agenda

• If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Money
  • Most
  • Arrested

• When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Control
  • Thoughts
  • Emotions

• I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Eyes
  • Presence
  • Venice

• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Why
  • Free

• We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Remember
  • Revolution
  • Right

• I am a very selfish person.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Person
  • Selfish

• Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Home
  • Age
  • Independent

• It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Poetry
  • Very
  • I Can

• One must act in painting as in life, directly.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Act

• War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • War
  • Peace

• 'Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for 'King of New York,' the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Hurt

• Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.

  

  Najib Razak
  • History
  • Without
  • Malaysia

• The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Important
  • Money
  • Man

• What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Find

• I haven't been to Berlin Fashion Week before, but it's really on the up. Being an artist as well as a model, I know that the art world is booming here, so it makes sense that fashion would feel that effect, too.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Up
  • World
  • Art

• Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Up
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Once you buy into a television show, there doesn't have to be resolution from week to week. You can develop characters and storylines and react to the audience, so you get more of a serialized version of storytelling where you can go much deeper into each character. It's more like a novel.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Character

• As I've always said: The future lies ahead.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Future
  • Lies
  • Said

• There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea; the solitude of self. Our inner being, which we call ourself, no eye nor touch of man or angel has ever pierced.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Sea
  • Angel
  • Solitude

• One of the most important things in the digital world is being able to story-tell and help people envision the art of the possible with respect to different technologies.

  

  Jamie S. Miller
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• We have already observed that the fortunes or misfortunes of individuals are dependent upon the maintenance of the independence and progress of the whole nation.

  

  Friedrich List
  • Progress

• Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll,Who wrote like an angel, and talk’d like poor Poll.

  

  David Garrick
  • Lies
  • Angel