Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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• My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Life
  • Age
  • Child

• Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Politics
  • Look
  • Ought

• I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• I'm a writer more than I am a talker.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Writer
  • Talker

• I hate remakes of TV shows - I didn't like the new Charlie's Angels at all - and I just don't see the point of going back and doing the same thing over again. Baywatch was fun and successful, probably because we didn't know what the heck we were doing.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Fun
  • Hate
  • Successful

• The first pitch I played on, for my first club, Braine-le-Comte, was only a metre from our house! I progressed very quickly.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • House
  • First
  • Club

• 'Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Book
  • Top
  • Over

• As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Up
  • Power
  • Control

• I love an iPad game of Scrabble.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Love
  • Game
  • Scrabble

• I always keep a woman's body in mind, accentuating her best features.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Mind
  • Best
  • Woman

• To my knowledge, there have been no studies done on the effects of antidepressants and altitude. But it is hugely important to find out if there are side effects. We should also find out what are the effects on fine motor skills and reaction time. These are all important questions that should be assessed.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Time
  • Important
  • Done

• My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Experience
  • Father
  • Game

• I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Age

• There is no such things as 'Islamic terrorism,' because terrorism differs from Islam. There's just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term 'Islamic terrorism' has become widespread.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Islamic

• He explained to me that he wanted a simple boy-meets-girl story with lyrics. This I felt was quite beyond my capabilities. I did not know any boys who met girls.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Girl
  • Simple
  • Boy

• I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Memories

• The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his … genius.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Different
  • May
  • Taken

• I been through the ringer, but they could do little to the middle finger.

  

  Eminem
  • Little
  • Middle

• People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.

  

  William B. Munro
  • People
  • Appreciation
  • Average

• Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

  

  Mae West
  • Rain
  • Boyfriend
  • Save

• Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'

  

  Chris Robinson The Black Crowes
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Something
  • Very
  • Developers

• My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Job

• All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley