Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

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• Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Mother

• The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

  

  Walter Salles
  • America
  • Film
  • Latin

• I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Know
  • Never
  • Feel

• She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Women
  • Live
  • She

• I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Find
  • Looking
  • Looking Back

• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Hand
  • Commitment
  • Go

• The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • History
  • Write
  • Main Thing

• I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Family
  • Queen
  • Fabulous

• An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • More
  • U.S.
  • Stones

• World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Peace
  • Never
  • Quiet

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Women
  • Education

• I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • World
  • Love
  • Feeling

• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• It is easier to get rid of one's religion than to get rid of one's sins.

  

  Dale Ahlquist

• This is a second chance for me, ... There's not much more you can ask for than that.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Chance

• The pitch for the show, the real pitch, when Larry and I went to NBC in 1988, was we want to show how a comedian gets his material. The show about nothing was just a joke in an episode many years later, and Larry and I to this day are surprised that it caught on as a way that people describe the show, because to us it's the opposite of that.

  

  Jerry Seinfeld
  • People
  • Real

• All things being equal, I think people would still prefer to do business with their hometown companies. That's true in America, that's true in China, that's true in Germany.

  

  William Clay Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Think
  • Hometown

• A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.

  

  Steven Biko
  • People
  • History
  • Vehicle

• The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer
  • People