Philip Sidney Quotes

There have been many most excellent poets that never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.

Philip Sidney

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• When I did 'The Social Network', David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Up
  • Law
  • Years

• Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • You
  • Like
  • Abuse

• I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Way
  • Listening
  • Blow

• I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Up
  • Never
  • Just

• I think it would help tremendously to have a senator that knows where jobs come from, that knows how to create them, that knows how to bring them back and, importantly, knows what it means to manage billions of dollars' worth of expenses and cut billions of dollars' worth of expenses.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Help
  • Think
  • Create

• I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Mind
  • Tour
  • Her

• If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • May
  • Think
  • Lose

• I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Country
  • Dream

• There are lots of women I look up to, but mentors are someone you talk to and not just admire. A lot of my friends that I trust are my mentors.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Women
  • Friends

• I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Think
  • Childhood

• I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I just loved it. As a kid you just crave attention, and early on I just felt it was so cool and fun to play around and have people clap for me. But eventually I grew up and fell deeper into it.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Loved
  • Theater

• If you would make the most of yourself, cut away all of your vitality sappers; get rid of everything which hampers you and holds you back, everything which wastes your energy, cuts down your working capital. Get freedom at any cost.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Freedom
  • Energy
  • Yourself

• Even a small reduction in errors and rework can have a significant impact.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Small
  • Impact
  • Errors

• The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.'

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Work
  • Party
  • Revolution

• It is only when the partisan shouting stops that we can hear each other's voices and concerns.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Hear
  • Voices
  • Shouting

• My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?

  

  Ja Rule
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• The beauty of man's being, fashioned as he is in the fairest of forms, demonstrates the existence of the Maker, while at the same time the fact that, together with his comprehensive abilities, lodged in that fairest of forms, he soon declines and dies, demonstrates the existence of the resurrection.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Time
  • Together
  • Man

• As we have seen again and again, when Amazon doesn't get the economic conditions from suppliers that it seeks, it simply goes its own way. In the book business, that has meant publishing its own titles under the various Kindle imprints. Now it's making diapers.

  

  Brad Stone
  • Business
  • Book

• The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

  

  Ovid
  • Best
  • Bold
  • Succeeds

• Then you'd have found me pinned beneath a large metal pipe.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Me
  • Found
  • Metal

• Opinions are like assholes. Everyone’s got one. Most people are quite fond of their own, especially in private. Yet they’re not really something that should be waved around too much in public. When they are, it’s okay to ignore them, because showing them off, unsolicited, is actually kind of rude.

  

  Hanne Blank
  • Opinions
  • Assholes

• When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.

  

  Maureen O'Hara

• There have been many most excellent poets that never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.

  

  Philip Sidney