Max Beerbohm Quotes

A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought.

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• My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Up
  • Children
  • Parents

• Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Life
  • Band
  • Like

• After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Critics
  • Others
  • Rather

• I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.

  

  Abby Elliott
  • Focus
  • Never
  • Acting

• I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Christmas
  • Year
  • Hockey

• I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Trust
  • Like
  • Doctors

• People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Life
  • Funny

• Like most women, I hate when a guy tries to pick me up by saying, You are the hottest girl I've ever seen. It's totally unrealistic. There are beautiful women everywhere.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Up
  • Women
  • Guy

• The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Think
  • Romantic
  • Last

• I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • Art
  • Want
  • You

• You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.

  

  Venus Williams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Time
  • Long
  • Why

• Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Sense
  • Proportion
  • Realised

• There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Long
  • Truth

• The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • Problem
  • Christian

• I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

  

  M. Ward
  • Good
  • American
  • Sometimes

• But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Where
  • Sure
  • Inspection

• I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Good
  • Through
  • Slow

• What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have to do more than go there and adopt a child or show us pictures of children with flies in their eyes. That simplifies Africa.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Children
  • She
  • Simple

• I work out every day, and I challenge myself. I've got a couple of friends who do CrossFit; I'm not a huge CrossFit guy, but I love the challenge.

  

  Donald Driver
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Guy

• I'm the kind of guy who, I need a watch that tells me what day it is. I need to know it's Friday on my watch. I need to look at it and go, 'Friday today.' Tomorrow I will not know it's Saturday until I look at my watch. My watchband broke, I was crippled. I have no concept of time, I have no concept of dates.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Today

• A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought.

  

  Max Beerbohm