Matthew Prior Quotes

Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart,And often took leave, but was loth to depart.

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• One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Man
  • Team
  • Ingredient

• The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Friends
  • Years
  • California

• I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Week
  • Intelligence
  • Planes

• I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Love

• I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't make the right choice, it actually puts marks not just on their souls but also their bodies. That means that you can visualize existential questions.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Choice

• I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Love
  • Art
  • Sound

• I would definitely love to be a parent.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Love
  • Parent
  • Definitely

• Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Most
  • Scotland
  • Engaging

• As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Time
  • Best
  • Yourself

• Any time you're a poster child for the CIA, there are a lot of people that are - either have ideological or they are mentally unbalanced - that are going to try to find you and perhaps cause you harm.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Time
  • Child

• Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

  

  Valerie Solanas
  • Family
  • Society
  • Community

• Did you know that when a baby poops its diaper, you're not supposed to hit him with a rolled up newspaper?

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Up
  • Baby

• For Ghana to suggest that they will turn off the Internet, in addition to other countries that have done it like Uganda, Zimbabwe, DRC, Burundi, Chad and others, that's worrying.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Done

• I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

  

  Claire Tomalin

• We need a system that provides mortgage credit in good times and bad to a broad range of creditworthy borrowers.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Good
  • Bad

• I always felt something different when I saw Gary Oldman on screen. It just felt like he knew how to reach a deeper level of himself, which is something I keep striving to reach.

  

  J. R. Ramirez
  • Different

• I am a loyal man.

  

  Claudio Ranieri

• I became number one just after the World Championships in India. I was very young then, and I remember it was just a great feeling, my first World Championship.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • World
  • Great
  • Remember

• I don't like that word 'discovery.' ... Sinatra was the first one to call Ray Charles a genius, he spoke of 'the genius of Ray Charles.' And after that everybody called him a genius. They didn't call him a genius before that though. He was a genius but they didn't call him that. ... If a white man hadn't told them, they wouldn't've seen it. ... Like, you know, they say Columbus discovered America, he didn't discover America.

  

  Gayl Jones
  • Men
  • Firsts
  • Genius

• Right now, I feel like I can take on the world. Ambition is the perfect word for where I am in my life right now.

  

  Jordin Sparks
  • Life
  • World
  • Perfect

• It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Hope
  • Society
  • Education

• Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Action

• Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart,And often took leave, but was loth to depart.

  

  Matthew Prior