Max Beerbohm Quotes
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.Max Beerbohm
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
Harold Ramis -
Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
Walter Gropius -
The crown of literature is poetry.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
Sally Kirkland -
It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
Garth Brooks
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
Garth Brooks -
I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.
Tatum O'Neal -
I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
Dan Marino -
People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
Cameron Crowe -
Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
Dale Carnegie -
Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.
B. B. King -
Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.
Natan Sharansky -
Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together.
Yair Lapid -
All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.
Wade Davis -
I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.
Vera Farmiga
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
Ian Lustick -
I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.
Natalia Tena -
To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.
Eric Alterman -
But when you come right down to it, the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you are a scientist you cannot stop such a thing. If you are a scientist you believe that it is good to find out how the world works; that it is good to find out what the realities are; that it is good to turn over to mankind at large the greatest possible power to control the world and to deal with it according to its lights and values. Regarding the atomic bomb project.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
Never having alone time is real tough on people.
Yakov Smirnoff -
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
Max Beerbohm