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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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 -
It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
Garth Brooks -
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
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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. -
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
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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 -
For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
Ian Lustick -
I feel like J. K. Rowling's world is one that is owned by everyone in some ways. People have grown up with it and have such a sense of that universe that there's something kind of wonderful seeing everyone get involved.
Eddie Redmayne -
My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.
Ian Mcewan
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You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.
Joan Sutherland -
4) It is a sin to waste the reader's time.
Larry Niven -
Most film productions, when they're based at a place, they get, like, a 30-mile radius or a 30-minute radius to get out of the town. And once you go past that, your day starts to become shorter, and you have to start paying your drivers more, and everybody just gets paid more, and you have less time to shoot, and everything costs more.
Jeff Nichols -
I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.
James Stockdale -
Something that I learned from 'Friday Night Lights,' sometimes if you have four or five scenes in an episode, it's not having less than having 10. It's what you do with those scenes.
Jason Katims -
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
Max Beerbohm