George Farquhar Quotes

Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.

George Farquhar

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• The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Live
  • Culture
  • Question

• I adore Eddie Kaye Thomas and Jason Biggs. Eddie was the only one who called me when they were doing 'American Reunion' and told me, 'You need to do this.'

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • American
  • Me
  • Told

• People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Want
  • Need

• Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Soul
  • Dreams
  • Window

• I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Life
  • Work
  • Science

• The comic edge of 'Ghostbusters' will always be the same. It's still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Always
  • Same
  • Supernatural

• I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Family
  • School
  • Culture

• I could have probably been just as successful by not going to college, but it was the most intellectually stimulating environment that I was ever in.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • College
  • Environment
  • Ever

• I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Law
  • Enough
  • Sense

• The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Need
  • Will

• I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Country
  • Home
  • Yourself

• I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Want
  • Someone
  • Group

• I've always liked drama; I've always found it really fun, like, I did go to drama club and things like that.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Fun
  • Drama
  • Club

• If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Money
  • You
  • Planning

• I was able to retire from the sport with all my faculties and not let the sport retire me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Sport
  • Retire
  • Faculties

• I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of life. I'm not out there trying to transform things, but somehow, by being easy to talk to, and easy to look at, and on a mainstream TV show, I think that I'm helping the public's opinions about transgendered people to change, slowly.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • People
  • Great
  • Value

• A person who is transformed by the instructions of a teacher, devotes himself to study, and abides by ritual and rightness may become a noble person, while one who follows his nature and emotions, is content to give free play to his passions, and abandons ritual and rightness is a lesser person.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • May
  • Nature
  • Free

• I was more of a Star Wars kid, actually. I always thought Star Trek was a lot of talk, and it felt a little self-important. It was hard for me to get into it.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Important
  • Kids
  • War

• As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • Child
  • Industry
  • Advertising

• I had no business trying to see you leave, see death arrive, I owe you an apology, an elegy, I owe you the drift of memory, the praise of everything, of saying it was the best decision of my life, to hold you full, hold you empty, & live as the only bond between the two.

  

  Bob Hicok
  • Business
  • Death
  • Decision

• If you look at tailgating, everyone does it. It's for everyone who likes to cook outdoors. It could be a 4th of July picnic.

  

  John Madden

• A man will be known by his books.

  

  William Martin
  • Books

• Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.

  

  George Farquhar