David Garrick Quotes

The boughs that bear most hang lowest.

David Garrick

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• The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Character
  • Way
  • Her

• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Learning
  • Dance
  • Stars

• My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Dinner

• The nice thing about Reddit is, we don't have to sell your data or build a profile of you or do stuff that makes people feel uncomfortable.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Nice
  • Uncomfortable

• When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Work
  • Book
  • Lost

• In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Good
  • Way
  • Screen

• When you look at Google, its job is to find you the perfect web page. There are a lot of cases when you want to know something and a list of websites isn't ideal.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Job
  • Want
  • Perfect

• Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Country
  • Vote
  • Voting

• I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Believe
  • You
  • Attention

• Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Man
  • Right
  • Lines

• If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Thinking
  • Bad
  • Day

• The fact is that our business is fundamentally really strong. We have a platform and a depth that no one in the tech industry has. This means we have competitors at every layer.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Platform

• My dad was a diehard Cowboys fan. I was raised as a Cowboy fan, and I was forced to be a Cowboy fan.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Dad
  • Cowboy
  • Forced

• I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Opinion
  • Moral

• Ill-timed admiration is enough to enrage a saint.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

• It took me a long time to understand my water lilies.. .I planted them for pleasure, and grew them without thinking of painting them.. You don't absorb a landscape in a day.. .And then, all of a sudden, I had the revelation of the enchantment of my pond. I took up my palette.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Music is the space between the notes.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • Music
  • Space

• We thus have a kind of see-saw: first, pure persuasion leading to the conversion of a minority; then force exerted to secure that the rest of the community shall be exposed to the right propaganda; and finally a genuine belief on the part of the great majority, which makes the use of force again unnecessary.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Great
  • Community
  • Rest

• At the crux of Half Dome, at the very top of the wall, imagine, like, a smooth wall of rock - a nearly vertical granite slap with tiny ripples for your hands and feet. And so you're really trusting the rubber on your shoes to stick to these ripples.

  

  Alex Honnold
  • Rock
  • Wall
  • Shoes

• There are 2 rules in extreme snowriding: First, always follow your heart; second, never cry when it hurts.

  

  Warren Miller
  • Heart
  • Always
  • Hurt

• It was not love at all, really, but rather a yearning for the honor and respect of the other men that held them. Pride, then... Indeed, all their connection with each other at this moment was tied up with the respect they felt they were earning by their actions.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • Men
  • Respect

• Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses.

  

  Ellis Paul Torrance
  • Creativity
  • Problems
  • Information

• The promise of American capitalism is that it makes people richer, freer and more independent. But since the introduction of Fed, the currency in which Americans keep score has so addled the figures, we scarcely know if we are winning or losing. The dollar we knew as a child - in the 1950's - is only worth a tenth as much today.

  

  Bill Bonner
  • Winning
  • Independent
  • Americans

• The boughs that bear most hang lowest.

  

  David Garrick