James Anthony Froude Quotes

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

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• I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Chocolate

• Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Attention
  • Start

• The less you have, the more you enjoy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • More

• Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Money
  • High
  • Small

• Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Different
  • Job
  • Language

• And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

  

  Larry David
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Version

• Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Simple
  • Daily

• An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Together
  • Heroic
  • Epic

• I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Fight
  • Find
  • Watch

• If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • Technology
  • Day
  • Moving

• Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• But with two boys and a new puppy, we don't get out much. We're usually home doing stuff together as a family, like watching 'Modern Family.'

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Family
  • Home
  • Together

• Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Shakespeare

• Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Place

• Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Time
  • Character

• Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Life
  • Society
  • Punishment

• Science has killed religion. There's no hope for the future with seven billion of us on the planet, and the only thing you can do is to laugh in the face of it all.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Science

• Almost lost you," he thought, surprised to find himself blinking back tears. "Been through too much, me and you. We're going to finish this thing together.

  

  Brom
  • Tears
  • Finish
  • Surprised

• My goal is to become the best person I can, and in the process of doing so, I believe, I can help others. I'm also trying to make history in mixed martial arts and become known as the best 135-pound fighter to ever compete.

  

  Dominick Cruz
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • History

• I like things that are immature and offbeat and bizarre. Random jokes. Weird stuff. And stupid. Stupid is the highest compliment a person can pay to me.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • Weird
  • Stupid
  • Random

• If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • Time
  • Long
  • Strong

• Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Time