Joseph Addison Quotes

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Joseph Addison

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• I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Up
  • Character
  • Book

• If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Want

• Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Day
  • Child
  • Doing

• Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Nature
  • Growing
  • Survival

• This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Character
  • Story
  • Birth

• Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Born
  • Birth
  • Teen

• I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Life
  • Help
  • Never

• As I've gotten older, I've realized my true models are my parents. My mom is like a sheroe. My dad is so strong.

  

  Zendaya
  • True
  • Parents
  • Strong

• 'The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the people in America want to embrace the religion of slavers.'

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Why
  • America

• When people reject a truth or an untruth it is not because it is a truth or an untruth that they reject it.No, if it isn't in accord with their beliefs in the first place they simply say, 'Nothing doing,' and refuse to inspect it.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Truth

• Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be.

  

  Donovan
  • May
  • She
  • Ocean

• No lesbian left behind.

  

  Kinky Friedman
  • Lesbian

• Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change?

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Why

• But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength, both in numbers and wealth; … unless, by a neglect of military discipline, we should lose all martial spirit …; for there is much truth in the Italian saying, Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Growing

• There's a basic rule of thumb that the more a culture oppresses women, or oppresses anyone, the more culturally preoccupied they are with that.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Women
  • Culture

• I want trade deals, but they have to be great for the United States and our workers. We don't make great deals anymore, but we will once I become president.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great

• I do like the ladies an awful lot. Surprisingly enough, it turns out ladies like me back; I'm a really good guy.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Good
  • Guy

• I feel I haven't been used to the fullest of my potential. There are so many genres to explore and diverse subjects to work on.

  

  Allu Arjun
  • Work
  • Explore

• When a country doesn't have a good economic infrastructure, that harms the country. With Stripe, the idea is that by providing better infrastructure, by linking the Internet economically, by making it easier for these online businesses to exist, it'll make the web better.

  

  John Collison
  • Good
  • Country

• I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

  

  Richard Thompson
  • Action
  • Songs
  • Tactile

• I don't know whether other people should or shouldn't pay taxes. I know I can, and I am willing, to pay more taxes. I know I should not get Social Security. I don't need it.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • People

• 'What do lesbians have against capitalized letters?''Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others.'

  

  Douglas Coupland

• It did take a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, and I think it might take another one to clean up after the second Bush.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Up

• I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

  

  Joseph Addison