Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes

Your duty is, as ferre as I can gesse.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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• As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Long
  • Book

• Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Family
  • History
  • Want

• 'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film is already in profit. It's got a strong content that will reach people's heart.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Heart
  • Strong

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• Don't underlook the Sixties; we started eating more vegetables, respecting women, and we shut down Vietnam. We did a lot of good stuff. But it shouldn't shut you down from the moment.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Good
  • Women
  • Moment

• The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Most

• Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Music
  • Different
  • Real

• What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's not broke, don't fix it.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Fix

• How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should, or ought to be written! - I will venture to say, will be written!

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Love
  • Say
  • Venture

• I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

  

  Wendy Liebman
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• Being right is important. Too many great teams march off saying, 'If we build it, they will come,' and then never are able to change the idea towards something that people really want.

  

  Garry Tan
  • People
  • Great
  • Important

• Blood and death. That moves me.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Death
  • Me
  • Blood

• Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Consequence
  • Oil
  • Export

• I think we must be careful about too easily accepting, or being too easily grateful for, sacrifices made by others, especially if we have made none ourselves.

  

  Wendell Berry

• But coercion never produces harmony.  How harmonious are people who are being forced to act against their will?  Most likely, those who are coerced will resent those who benefit from the coercion.  This sets group against group; it doesn't bring them together.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Together

• I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Why

• I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet. Anybody who could possibly call himself a poet just cannot be a poet.

  

  Bob Dylan

• 'As for your circumcisions, the chief modin can arrange all. Your wine must return to the earth, whence the grape came. Haram.'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Earth
  • Wine

• I think my style revolves around the philosophy that less is more, that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. That goes for my taste in design and in clothes, and even affects the way I approach music. I'm all about keeping things simple, and minimal, but being able to convey something powerful through that approach.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Style

• It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication.

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • People
  • Movie
  • Communication

• I don't like talking unnecessarily, and my communication skills are zilch. I just can't converse with people. Maybe it's because of my stuttering or stammering, but I'm not confident of talking with people. I only talk to very close friends and family.

  

  Pritam Chakraborty
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into a corporation. It does not speak of 'the people' as a corporation, but as individuals. A corporation does not describe itself as 'we,' nor as 'people,' nor as 'ourselves.' Nor does a corporation, in legal language, have any 'posterity.'

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • People
  • Time

• Fans and friends are considered family. Being an A7X fan isn’t always easy because it means you’re not only gonna laugh with us, but cry with us and defend us on occasion. If you’re part of the family it’s for life.

  

  Zacky Vengeance
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• Your duty is, as ferre as I can gesse.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer