George Chapman Quotes

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• The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Know
  • Horse
  • Racing

• Most of the dramatism in Wagner comes from a very close link between the music and the language of the text. So much of the expressivity of Wagner's music dramas comes from the singers' capacity to play with the sound of the language. This kind of thing you can do very well in concert performance.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Language
  • Performance

• I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Long

• When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Power
  • Giving
  • Hate

• And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

  

  Matthew Prior

• Life's too short to just breeze on by.

  

  David Chang
  • Life

• The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Future

• I'm just going to try to stay employed. That's the tough part in this business.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Business

• In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • World
  • Music

• Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

  

  Anna Magnani
  • Long

• I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

  

  David Copperfield
  • Parents

• I've been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC.

  

  Joe Rogan

• I was upset with Delbert, because there he was going again and pushing me out in front, without asking me.

  

  Cheryl Lynn

• You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.

  

  Maxim Gorky
  • Children

• Conflicts are increasingly causing devastation in densely populated urban centres rather than open battlefields, creating a host of new problems through the cumulative impact from the destruction of vital services like water and electricity.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • Water

• Minus Point:

  

  Preity Zinta

• People who invented the word charity, and used it in a good sense, inculcated more clearly, and much more efficaciously, the precept, Be charitable, than any pretended legislator or prophet, who should insert such a maxim in his writings.

  

  David Hume
  • People
  • Good
  • Charity

• From the dawn of the day to the dusk he toiled, Shaping fanciful playthings, with tireless hands, - Useless trumpery toys; and, with vaulting heart, Gave them unto all peoples, who mocked at him, Trampled on them, and soiled them, and went their way.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Heart

• Any small business that's predicated on technological innovation and is differentiated and superior can expand globally very effectively using the Internet as a vehicle for promotion.

  

  John Quelch
  • Business
  • Small
  • Innovation

• I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Vain
  • Gentlemen
  • Sparrows

• My aim for now is to lead a peaceful revolution to remove this regime. I think if I can be in the street with the people I can achieve more than if I am the president.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Revolution

• I believe that anyone who chooses a path and keeps walking will find a positive result some day. I didn't want to go with the flow and do any kind of film that came my way and wind up my career swiftly.

  

  Harshvardhan Rane
  • Career
  • Film
  • Path

• Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm! The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man to toil; All things unholy, marred by curse, The ugly of the universe.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Men
  • Long
  • Universe

• An ill weed grows apace.

  

  George Chapman
  • Weed