Walter Scott Quotes
'What remains?' cried Ivanhoe; 'Glory, maiden, glory! which gilds our sepulchre and embalms our name.'Walter Scott
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
K. Flay -
I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
Mae West -
All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
Zac Goldsmith -
To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.
Ted Lange -
I would say I am an ordinary bowler but one with a really big heart, and that's what has stood me in good stead in all these years.
Harbhajan Singh
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If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.
Dan Malloy -
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Lactantius -
Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
Yuna -
I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
Nancy Cartwright -
No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
Ram Kapoor -
I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
Yo-Yo Ma
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
A. N. Wilson -
I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully.
Gaby Hoffmann -
There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
Iain Banks -
When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
Tahmoh Penikett -
Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
Randeep Hooda -
When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
Laura Ricketts
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I wrote the books I should have liked to read. That's always been my reason for writing. People won't write the books I want, so I have to do it for myself.
C. S. Lewis -
The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
Nathan Myhrvold -
You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.
Kevin Spacey -
This is an age of science. ... All important fields of activity from the breeding of bees to the administration of an empire, call for an understanding of the spirit and the technique of modern science. The nations that do not cultivate the sciences cannot hold their own.
Wickliffe Rose -
'What remains?' cried Ivanhoe; 'Glory, maiden, glory! which gilds our sepulchre and embalms our name.'
Walter Scott