Walter Savage Landor Quotes

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one.

Walter Savage Landor

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• There is no such thing as ugly.

  

  Zendaya
  • Ugly
  • Thing

• Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Want
  • Change
  • Me

• I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • American
  • Think

• When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Me

• The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Know
  • Stress
  • Percent

• A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.

  

  Washed Out
  • Couple
  • Doing
  • First

• When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Father
  • Words
  • Advice

• If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Fail
  • Chemistry
  • Were

• I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • People
  • Important
  • Questions

• I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Good
  • Problem
  • Better

• I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I'll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I'd like to meet them.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Great
  • Rock
  • Gangster

• The people we grew up watching and listening to - Outkast, Gucci Mane, Hot Boys, Lil Wayne, Master P - all that type of stuff, we took those styles and made it our own.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Up
  • Listening

• I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Reading
  • Child

• Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • Liberty
  • Move
  • Censorship

• Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Fear
  • Government
  • Rights

• If 10 years ago I was told I'd be where I am now, I would've been pretty happy.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Years

• I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Right
  • Fights
  • Prime

• When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

  

  Quintilian
  • Wisdom
  • Defeat
  • Wisest

• Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.

  

  Katharine Graham
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• [Successful] projects that entrepreneurs initiated and carried through had one essential quality. All had been thoroughly contemplated by the regnant experts and dominant companies, with their large research staffs and financial resources, and had been judged too difficult, untimely, risky, expensive and unprofitable.

  

  George Gilder
  • Quality
  • Financial
  • Successful

• The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Understand
  • Difficult
  • Ordinary

• The largest factor in predicting group intelligence was the equality of conversational turn taking; groups where a few people dominated the conversation were less collectively intelligent than those with a more equal distribution of conversational turn taking.

  

  Alex Pentland
  • People
  • Intelligence
  • Groups

• Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.

  

  Wendy Wasserstein
  • Desire
  • Speak
  • Certain

• Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one.

  

  Walter Savage Landor