Philip Massinger Quotes

What a seaOf melting ice I walk on!

Philip Massinger

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• The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Compassion

• In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Idea

• My fans are going to support me through thick and thin; 100 per cent, they'll always support me.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Me
  • Support
  • Always

• I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and so bold. We'd do anything, all of us, to not work in that environment, and then I'm sitting there watching hours of it.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Work
  • Love
  • Environment

• For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Humans

• I don't have an endgame. My game is to take on any bad guys I see out there. And do the best I can until they put me under the carpet.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Bad
  • Game
  • Best

• Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Book
  • Fact
  • Publish

• Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Together
  • Future
  • Faith

• It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • True
  • Very
  • Land

• The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Long
  • Book
  • Power

• My upbringing was so middle-class and repressed. It wasn't until I was placed in Lunghua that I met anyone from any other social strata. When I did, I found them colossally vital.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Middle-class
  • Upbringing

• Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Writing
  • Pregnancy

• I tried to commit suicide because I sacrificed everything for Hitler. And that man whom we sacrificed everything for left us all alone. If he had committed suicide four years before, it would have been all right.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Alone
  • Suicide

• I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

• Cuando lo superficial me cansa, me cansa tanto, que para descansar necesito un abismo.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.

  

  Bill Kristol

• When I have dinner, I get off my phone, smell my food, and chew it well.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Food

• After the 2013 World Championships, I had three goals for the Olympics: to swim 3:56 or better in the 400-meter freestyle, break 8:05 in the 800, and win gold in the 200. I achieved all of those, and soon, it will be time to set some new goals.

  

  Katie Ledecky
  • Time
  • World
  • Goals

• Studying organisms at a molecular level was totally compelling because it was moving from being a naturalist, which was the 19th-century kind of science, to being very focused and really getting to the heart of these molecules.

  

  Elizabeth Blackburn
  • Heart
  • Science
  • Moving

• You don't always have to get an expensive gym membership. The important thing is to keep moving and to make it fun and have variety - it's the spice of life.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Life
  • Important
  • Fun

• A lot of people forget that today. They come to the point where you walk on a set and the first thing you know you're looking at the sound man and you're saying to yourself, "How the hell can they get any sound when nobody is talking!" They get all mumbly. You can't make out what they're saying! And you're 6 feet away from them! Whereas in the old-time movies, you hear them, you understand every word they're saying, and you didn't have to put on your loudspeaker.

  

  Ernest Borgnine
  • Movies
  • Forget
  • Sound

• The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music. Most people's eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they'll understand the music.

  

  Bjork
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• What a seaOf melting ice I walk on!

  

  Philip Massinger