Ernest Shackleton Quotes
Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.
Quotes to Explore
-
It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
-
I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
-
I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
-
Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.
-
Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
-
I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
-
I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
-
One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
-
I feel, even if someone is blessed with good hair, one needs to follow the basic hair care regime, and that means investing in the correct shampoo, conditioner, and mask.
-
If the characters on 'The West Wing' were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump was leading in the polls, they wouldn't find it believable.
-
Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
-
I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'
-
One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
-
I love Parisian hotels. I usually stay in either Le Bristol, which is gorgeous, or Hotel Paris Rivoli, which is very French and feels like a step back in time. I also love the luxury of Waldorf Astoria hotels.
-
'Ray Donovan' is very dark and very serious. As actors will tell you, the darker and more serious the material, the more jokes that go around set. It's a counterbalance.
-
The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
-
To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
-
From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn't mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.
-
Siempre me fue más fácil amar que elogiar.
-
People who are using it to sell things on Craigslist to holding garage sales - campaigns - the Obama campaign and the Romney campaign both used Square to raise funds.
-
Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.
-
Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
-
I've always been an optimist.
-
Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.
