Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
I recommend you to take care of the minutes: for hours will take care of themselves.Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Quotes to Explore
-
I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.
Pat Burns -
My dad's paternal grandparents were musically inclined. And I remember as a little kid going to visit them in their senior building, and they were, like, the stars of the building, especially hosting and performing in their senior talent show.
Aaron Lazar -
From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
Yuvraj Singh -
I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day.
Aaron Rodgers -
I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.
Damian Lewis -
We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
Nate Silver
-
We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
Nate Silver -
I always save a few special outfits for the final rounds of a tournament, because they put me in a more positive mindset and I then make better decisions.
Camilo Villegas -
Politics and sports are the same thing in some ways. I like sports; I don't like the sports aspect of politics. The conventions are basically the playoffs, and the election's the Super Bowl. To me, it doesn't feel important.
Hari Kondabolu -
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco -
I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will attempt to bring the highest level of my own prose, and to make it sparkle.
Val McDermid -
Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before.
Nam June Paik
-
Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an œconomy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure that he may speak it the longer.
Edmund Burke -
A strict allegory is like a puzzle with a solution: a great romance is like a flower whose smell reminds you of something you can't quite place. I think the something is 'the whole quality of life as we actually experience it.'
C. S. Lewis -
...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
Larry Wall -
It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.
Claude Debussy -
They say that bears Have love affairs And even camels, We're merely mammals Let's misbehave.
Cole Porter -
But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.
Anna Letitia Barbauld
-
I started thinking about what I've always been interested in: how people can't see things that are right in front of them. All you have to do is read the papers to see endless examples of smart people who can't see the nose on their faces.
Jean Hanff Korelitz -
It should be easier to play opposite my wife.
George Gaynes -
How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.
Al-Shafi‘i -
Miserable people love to make other people miserable. I don't hate them, I just feel sorry for them.
Brandi Glanville -
Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.
Bob Taft -
I recommend you to take care of the minutes: for hours will take care of themselves.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield