Ernest Dimnet Quotes

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

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• When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Time
  • Pay
  • University

• Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Time
  • School
  • Fighting

• As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Live
  • Way
  • Hate

• I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Work
  • Best
  • Cool

• This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Life
  • World
  • Spiritual

• From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • First
  • Wanted
  • Just

• Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Why
  • Always

• I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Me
  • Working
  • News

• I get this anxiety in cities and places like that. When you grow up in kind of a small town and when you grow up around a lot of green and trees and nature and that sort of thing, sometimes I think it's a little mentally disconcerting to be around this concrete.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Small

• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Dance
  • Stars
  • Bird

• I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.

  

  Alber Elbaz

• The thrill of doing 'Good People' is I love those kinds of stories, and I'm good at them, and it's wonderful to see that material given to a terrific director and a terrific cast.

  

  Kelly Masterson
  • People
  • Good

• I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Different

• Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

  

  Emma Goldman
  • Live
  • Heaven

• I was always interested in it when I was younger, but it was when I was at university, getting together with other like-minded theatrically inclined types, that I admitted to myself that I wanted to be an actor.

  

  Adam Rayner
  • Together

• Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • Time

• Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.

  

  Anthony Fauci
  • Today
  • Health

• For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.

  

  Anatole France
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.

  

  David Eddings
  • Work
  • Real
  • Bored

• Montserrat is a very pleasant place to do nothing. The islanders know this, and they know this is why tourists go there, but they are not totally comfortable with the notion.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Why

• The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions of the future. But by the time the image reaches the eyes of the viewer, it belongs to the past, taking on the status of something retrieved.

  

  Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
  • Time
  • World
  • Future

• The fumes are coming out, but we're still running. We have the pedal to the medal all the way down. I'm not going to let anyone slow down. We need three more wins. There's no way we can settle for less.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Running
  • Wins
  • Medal

• Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

  

  Ernest Dimnet
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  • Life Is Too Short