Jonathan Swift Quotes

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

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• I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
  • Good
  • Music
  • Art

• If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • True
  • Control
  • Organization

• In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Important
  • Politics
  • Details

• Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Successful
  • Run
  • Discover

• Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Words

• I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Model

• Statistics is the grammar of science.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Science
  • Statistics
  • Grammar

• I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Sound
  • Freak

• There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Women
  • Two
  • Only

• Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Famous

• I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • Roots
  • Charismatic
  • Pentecostal

• We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Know
  • City
  • Without

• The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • Saying

• I went from not knowing anything to becoming really curious and wanting to know and respecting people in the industry, realizing how hard they work. I will always be thankful for 'Top Model' for that.

  

  Fatima Siad
  • People
  • Work
  • Model

• On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Road
  • Television
  • Prejudice

• I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Know
  • Red
  • Stress

• Hanson is not the pop band that a lot of people think we are. I think we're a lot more rooted in a lot of music history... we're songwriters, we're singers, we're players first. We're not entertainers, we're not celebrities, and frankly, we don't really want to be.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Music
  • History

• Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Poetry
  • Feelings
  • Language

• So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Today

• I would never have gotten married if it weren't for him. You have to want to be married to someone. You have to feel that reciprocated. Marriage for marriage's sake doesn't make any sense to me, and I found someone with whom I could put my money where my mouth is, I guess.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Money
  • Feel
  • Married

• I have no doubt that Jesus would actually practice the neighborliness he preached rather than following our example of religious supremacy, hostility, fear, isolation, misinformation, exclusion, or demonization.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Jesus
  • Isolation
  • Demonization

• The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true.

  

  Michael McKean
  • Song
  • Way
  • Process

• I love going back to cities where I had a strong fan base - like San Antonio, Minneapolis - those were really good fan bases, like Iowa and Chicago.

  

  Bret Hart
  • I Love
  • Cities
  • Fan Base

• I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Company
  • I Love
  • Acquaintance