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

• 'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the edges. Blown by the wind. When I was a little boy, I used to shut my eyes in winter and imagine a green leaf, with veins on it, and the sun shining ...' 'What's this - an allegory?' "No; why? Not an allegory - a leaf, just a leaf. A leaf is good. Everything's good.'

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Wind
  • Imagine
  • Veins

• There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I also detest the so-called "powerful" novel - full of commonplace obscenities and torrents of dialog.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Powerful
  • Mystery
  • Novel

• 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

• Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Christ
  • Neglect

• I'd usually go to Jack if Brendan was busy. There was also a series of paper, rock, scissors, drawing lots and, ultimately, a duel.

  

  James Patrick Keeler The Afghan Whigs
  • Paper
  • Series
  • Jack

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

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Veins
  • Striking
  • Half-thinkers