Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Peter was dull; he was at first Dull,-oh so dull, so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed, Still with this dulness was he cursed! Dull,-beyond all conception, dull.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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• I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.

  

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• Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

  

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• I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.

  

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• Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

  

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• I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.

  

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• I wash my hair once or twice a week to keep the natural oils.

  

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• The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.

  

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• Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.

  

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• I would fly to Los Angeles just for a cheeseburger with pickles and extra tomatoes from In-N-Out.

  

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• We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

  

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• My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.

  

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• I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.

  

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• I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.

  

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• Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.

  

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• O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

  

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• Life-flow of my natal hour, I will not weary of thy power, Till in the changes of thy sound A chord's three parts distinct are found. I will faithful move with thee, God-ordered, self-fed energy, Nature in eternity.

  

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• All this 'King' stuff is pure bullshit. I eat and sleep and go to the bathroom just like anyone else. I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

  

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• I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.

  

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• Peter was dull; he was at first Dull,-oh so dull, so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed, Still with this dulness was he cursed! Dull,-beyond all conception, dull.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley