Josh Billings Quotes

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Josh Billings

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• I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Style
  • Intimidating
  • Demanding

• I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Fun
  • Dad
  • Like

• You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Life
  • Know

• I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Truth
  • Giving
  • Now

• I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• I hardly look at myself in the mirror... I'll only wear makeup if I need to cover something up. But I've recently started caring about my skin. I just turned 60 and was like, 'OK, maybe it's time to start thinking about it.' Before that, I would just splash water on my face, put cream on, and then leave.

  

  Pamela Hanson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Feeling
  • Space
  • Universe

• There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Work
  • Country

• I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Book

• About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Writing
  • History
  • Death

• Without a dog, you'll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • You
  • Dog
  • Human

• I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Myself

• What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • World
  • Important
  • Love

• I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Character
  • Book

• I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Just
  • Consistent

• I'm easy to hate. I get it.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Hate
  • Easy
  • Get

• 'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Story

• Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

  

  Leon Kass
  • Parenthood
  • Perversion
  • Cloning

• Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main – spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

  

  Lord Byron
  • God
  • Mind
  • Love

• It's good to have a little distance. If you discuss your love too much, it just damages it.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Good
  • Love
  • Distance

• Family life is tough, I'll say that for it. But in my case, I've mined the family. In a sense, I've used it. I've used what happened - the different events, the births of children, birthdays. Connecting, not connecting. Regret, shame, guilt. I mean, they're all in the songs. And love, too, I hasten to add.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Life
  • Different
  • Children

• My wearing my hair in locs on an Oscar red carpet was to showcase them in a positive light, to remind people of color that our hair is good enough.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Good
  • Light

• Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

  

  Josh Billings
  • Love
  • Envy
  • Microscope