James Boswell Quotes

As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.

James Boswell

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• From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Night
  • Day
  • Dark

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Want
  • Need

• Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.

  

  Maluma
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Watch

• Novels are longer than life.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Life
  • Novels
  • Longer

• Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Know
  • Dad
  • Like

• I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • School
  • Kids
  • Fun

• I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Health
  • Single

• But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.

  

  Sally Field
  • Up
  • Years
  • Broken

• A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Things
  • Inspiration
  • Banal

• In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Career
  • Blame
  • Steps

• I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Life
  • Great
  • Intensity

• People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Think
  • Change

• Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Day
  • Better
  • Hands

• I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Name

• The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Teacher

• The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Long
  • Live
  • Think

• The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • German

• If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

  

  Bob Feller
  • People
  • World
  • War

• I'm kind of lazy. I like to lie around with my husband and watch TV and stuff like that.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Husband
  • Lazy

• By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Country
  • Better
  • Broken

• I stand before you today heart broken, I know history and I love this country ...God blessed this country and it took sacrifice because even though they were endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that's an inheritance. And if you are not willing to fight for you inheritance, even when you leave your children, if they won't fight for it, they don't keep it. Mean greedy evil people will take it away.

  

  Louie Gohmert
  • People
  • God
  • Country

• As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.

  

  James Boswell
  • Country
  • Church
  • King