W. H. Auden Quotes
It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.W. H. Auden
Quotes to Explore
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
Owen Arthur -
I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
Imelda May -
I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
Os Guinness -
I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
Rakul Preet Singh -
All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
Gary Johnson -
Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
Hannah Mills
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
Olivier Theyskens -
I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.
Dana Carvey -
What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
F. Sionil Jose -
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
Patrick Stewart -
Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
Barry McGee -
I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
Rachel Kushner
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
E. W. Howe -
As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
Edmund White -
Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet.
Adam Beach -
It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.
Olivia Newton-John -
I don't get hung up on weight.
Jack Black -
I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
T. J. Miller
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Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.
Bill Owens -
We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.
William Hazlitt -
Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
I studied psychology for a couple of years as a personal hobby, so you start learning about people and listening to your intuition, like when you you're feeling that people are not being entirely straight with you.
Nick van de Wall -
The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.
John Strachan -
It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.
W. H. Auden