Joseph Addison Quotes

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

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• When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Together

• If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Long
  • Security
  • Cost

• There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Up
  • Music
  • Done

• I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • inspirational
  • Performance

• My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Know
  • Day
  • Always

• In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • World
  • War
  • Boy

• To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Meaningful

• Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Something

• I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Wife
  • Child
  • Lucky

• You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Fear

• What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • People
  • Dreams
  • Books

• I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Done
  • Like
  • Christmas

• I'd follow Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson anywhere.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Follow
  • Anywhere
  • Ben

• I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Always
  • Things
  • Magazines

• Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Me
  • Model
  • Successful

• Oftentimes, you have to be able to throw it in order to run it.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • You
  • Run
  • Throw

• Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Fun
  • Math
  • Negative

• If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Change
  • Look

• I love these sort of documentaries, which you might turn on late on a Saturday night - like, say, 'The Alma Cogan Story.' But they are ripe for spoofing, because the presenters are always so serious and anxious to make themselves look like rather attractive and interesting people.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • People
  • Night
  • Interesting

• Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cucc. Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And springth the wude nu, Sing cuccu!

  

  Ezra Pound

• Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.

  

  Daisy Bates
  • Opinions
  • Most
  • Scientific

• 'Great Expectations' is one of the greatest stories.

  

  Jeremy Irvine
  • Great

• You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

  

  Scott Bakula
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Character

• Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

  

  Joseph Addison