Max Beerbohm Quotes
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.Max Beerbohm
Quotes to Explore
-
I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
Walt Handelsman -
The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
Dan Castellaneta -
The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
Jackie Robinson -
Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
Samuel E. Morison -
I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
Felicity Kendal -
You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
Gary Sherman
-
Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
Salman Rushdie -
My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
J. D. Vance -
Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
Waris Dirie -
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.
Adam Grant -
We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
-
Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
Barbara Corcoran -
It was the 'Gaucho' album that finished us off. We had pursued an idea beyond the point where it was practical. That album took about two years, and we were working on it all of that time - all these endless tracking sessions involving different musicians. It took forever, and it was a very painful process.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
Imtiaz Ali -
What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
Candace Bushnell -
I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
Dan Rather -
I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
Randy Travis
-
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If you feel your rights are being abused by the authorities, and you don't say something, sometimes the cops don't know how far to take it. They have a hard job, but at the same time, I think it's just about educating yourself.
Corey Hawkins -
Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
Federica Mogherini -
I honestly just hope to continue creating music that people can relate to and connect with in a personal way.
Grace Martine Tandon -
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Max Beerbohm