Max Beerbohm Quotes

Oxford walls have a way of belittling us; and the Duke was loath to regard his doom as trivial. Aye, by all minerals we are mocked. Vegetables, yearly deciduous, are far more sympathetic.

Max Beerbohm

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• I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Want

• Historical science is being left in the dust.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Science
  • Being
  • Dust

• When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Other than the fact that they can't tell directions, and they have very strange breeding habits, how do you actually work with these things?

  

  Omar Ahmad
  • Work
  • Start
  • Habits

• I love going to second-hand stores.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Hand
  • Going

• I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Picture
  • Techniques
  • Fashions

• I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Music
  • School
  • Dance

• I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • People
  • Think
  • Positive

• A Central Bank official said that Q-coin did not affect the renminbi; it adds vibrancy to the economy.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Said
  • Economy
  • Bank

• Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that it's really been right alongside of it, and I've always been writing and playing and singing.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Life
  • Music
  • Writing

• I'm not a pundit. I don't want to be a pundit.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Want

• All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Art
  • History
  • Tradition

• Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Why
  • Positive
  • Farming

• New Year's Eve is a great time to think about making a resolution to change a behavior, improve upon a practice, or to start something new. Most people don't keep their resolutions very far into the year, but there's no reason to wait until Dec 31st to reboot.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I went to high school in Columbia. I met my first wife, Richards, whom I married while I was working on a B.S. in chemistry at Georgia Tech. She bore Louise, and I studied. I learned most of the useful technical things - math, physics, chemistry - that I now use during those four years.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • School
  • She
  • High

• We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Long

• This is an industry, it's a business. We exist to make money. We exist to put commercials on the air. The programming that is put on between those commercials is simply the bait we put in the mousetrap. 1

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Money
  • Business
  • Air

• Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.

  

  Edward Abbey

• I am the most loyal player money can buy.

  

  Don Sutton
  • Money
  • Player

• I've been a 'Doctor Who' fan since I was a wee girl.

  

  Neve McIntosh
  • Girl

• It's not a face, but a personal insult.

  

  Faina Ranevskaya
  • Faces
  • Insult

• Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Results
  • Means
  • Violent

• Simply put, I'm glad that manga as an expressive form is expanding.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Glad
  • Simply
  • Expressive

• Everyone knows that the broadband era will breed a new generation of online services, but this is only half of the story. Like any innovation, broadband will inflict major changes on its environment. It will destroy, once and for all, the egalitarian vision of the Internet.

  

  Charles Platt
  • Environment
  • Vision
  • Innovation

• Oxford walls have a way of belittling us; and the Duke was loath to regard his doom as trivial. Aye, by all minerals we are mocked. Vegetables, yearly deciduous, are far more sympathetic.

  

  Max Beerbohm