Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes

Of studie took he most cure and most hede. Noght o word spak he more than was nede, And that was seyd in forme and reverence, And short and quik, and ful of hy sentence. Souninge in moral vertu was his speche, And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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• My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Time
  • Stuff
  • Fantasy

• Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Thought
  • Start

• I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Road

• My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Woman

• Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Lose
  • Economic
  • Recovery

• We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Understand
  • Just
  • Privilege

• Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Family
  • Together
  • Changes

• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Decision
  • Made
  • Radio

• We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Holidays

• One day, I want to make a PG film.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Day
  • Film

• When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • School
  • Professional
  • Old

• We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Business
  • Small
  • Down

• Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • House
  • Lost
  • Thought

• I would love to go to film school.

  

  Sage Stallone
  • School
  • Love
  • Film

• I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Dreamer
  • Rising
  • Pisces

• Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Hand
  • Bee

• I was probably 11 by the time I saw a movie.

  

  Peter Gallagher Tufts Beelzebubs
  • Time
  • Movie

• The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. And sometimes the material requires a more straightforward approach, and sometimes it requires a little more silliness, you know?

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Know
  • Connection
  • Material

• While we can work hard at improving our health, size is no more in our control than the color of our skin, our ethnicity, or our sexual preference.

  

  Allison Anders
  • Work
  • Control
  • Health

• For many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel that this aspect has suffered greatly.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • Positive
  • Moral

• Of studie took he most cure and most hede. Noght o word spak he more than was nede, And that was seyd in forme and reverence, And short and quik, and ful of hy sentence. Souninge in moral vertu was his speche, And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Moral