Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

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• My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • Trying
  • She

• I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Fake
  • Talking

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • God
  • Money
  • Like

• On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'

  

  Orson Welles
  • Love
  • Written
  • Tombstone

• Life is a dead-end street.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Street
  • Life Is A

• Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Different
  • School

• You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Important
  • Job
  • Learn

• I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • Simple
  • Respond
  • Complex

• The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Think
  • Environment
  • Fiction

• The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • People
  • Life
  • Beauty

• I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Life
  • Family
  • Parents

• I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Trying
  • Loved
  • Show

• If somebody says I'm a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it's the ultimate compliment.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Leader
  • Try
  • Compliment

• Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Life
  • Great
  • Nothing

• I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Home
  • Protection

• I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Never
  • Dresses
  • Worn

• Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Rock
  • New York

• When I caught up, I grabbed Jack’s arm. “What are you doing here?” “Hiding! That’s how you play the game, right? I thought the title hide-and-seek was fairly self-explanatory. Then again, you are blond.” “So are you, idiot. Again, what are you doing here?

  

  Kiersten White
  • Games
  • Arms
  • Idiot

• However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Thoughts
  • Wishes

• As life draws nearer to its end, I feel more and more clearly that it will not matter in the least, at the last day, what form of religion a man has professed-nay, that many who have never even heard of Christ, will in that day find themselves saved by His blood.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Religion
  • Christ
  • Blood

• The good that binds us is Love, it comes from our Soul, it flows through our center, and connects us with everything.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Good
  • Love
  • Soul

• Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Soul