John Stuart Mill Quotes

Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

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• The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Why
  • Said
  • Week

• What happens in the heart simply happens.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Heart
  • Happens
  • Simply

• Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Opportunity
  • Disappointment

• I had gone to the doctor. The doctor said, 'You're healthy as a horse. You've got two weight problems - two health problems because of your weight. Please do something.'

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Health
  • Horse

• I don't really have any plans in terms of what I want to do - movies, television, theater - but I'd love to do a play in New York.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard

• My mum took me to the ballet at three, and that was the only time I sat still, with jaw open, mesmerised. She brought me home, and I wouldn't stop dancing.

  

  Emma Rigby
  • Time
  • Home
  • She

• People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.

  

  Julia Carin Cavazos
  • People

• I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

  

  Andrea Hirata
  • Work
  • Text

• If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

  

  David Halberstam
  • World

• I started singing in coffeehouses when I was still in high school, in Santa Barbara. I took a job washing dishes and busing tables in the coffeehouse, so I could be there, and would beg permission to sing harmony with the guy who was singing onstage. That was the first time I ever got on a stage in front of people.

  

  David Crosby The Byrds
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London.

  

  James W. Black
  • Real
  • Opportunity
  • Small

• I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

  

  Amber Heard

• 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' - every scene is from those characters' point of view. They're in literally every scene, very unusual in a big studio film.

  

  Doug Liman

• Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have kids. Nothing much happens here.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Friends

• It was 1939. There was no money or jobs around. I did my parents a favor and joined the Navy.

  

  Jason Robards
  • Money
  • Parents

• Drama is all about the moment of ultimate conflict for a person.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Drama

• I was pretty sure I lacked the wisdom to be the commencement speaker, but after stewing over the idea for about 48 hours, I decided that if the senior class at the University of Wisconsin wants me to come speak, I'll do whatever they ask me. I love that school.

  

  Anders Holm
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Wisdom

• When you win, nothing hurts.

  

  Joe Namath

• Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, we are alone indeed! We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Adventure
  • Events
  • Madness

• Boy trouble, huh?" "Boy catastrophe is more like it. I'm not sure I can do this." "Do what?" Concern sounded in Holiday's voice. "Do Lucas," Kylie said. Holiday made a funny face and raised one eyebrow.

  

  Christie Craig
  • Funny
  • Boy
  • Boys

• Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.

  

  William Topaz McGonagall
  • Taken
  • Lives
  • Bridge

• The man who wins out and survives does so only because of superior science and strategy.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • Science
  • Strategy
  • Wins

• If and when we get back to that solid, biblically and constitutionally based foundation in this country, America will be great - and America will be great again because we give people freedom, we dissolve power out of Washington.

  

  Rick Perry
  • People
  • Country
  • Giving

• Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Veins
  • Striking
  • Half-thinkers