Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Abraham Lincoln

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• I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Work
  • Love
  • Woman

• I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Think
  • Desire
  • Process

• I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Art
  • Reality

• I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Guy
  • Feeling

• Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Law
  • Fashion
  • Influence

• The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Resolve
  • Our
  • Collective

• When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Home
  • Help
  • Food

• My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Thinking
  • Parents
  • Sound

• I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Important
  • Think
  • Really

• People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • You
  • Say

• In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Teenager
  • Ways
  • Normal

• I'm a strange person - I don't really get rewards out of how many hits I have on YouTube. I love it, and I'm grateful, and it's important to me. But does it equal peace within me? No, it doesn't.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Important
  • Love
  • Peace

• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Long
  • School
  • High

• I'm not politically correct.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Politically Correct

• I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Always

• I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Inspiration
  • Say
  • Cook

• I love cooking and baking.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Love
  • Cooking
  • Baking

• One of my greatest times of inspiration is when I'm traveling or living in a new country - there's a tremendous freedom that comes from being unfettered by your own, familiar culture, and by seeing the world from a different point of view.

  

  Kim Edwards
  • World
  • Country
  • Culture

• Playing tough characters just comes easy for me. It's not who I am in real life, so I love going to work and pretending to be something I'm not. I love all the action and confidence. But when I finally go do a rom-com, I hope my fans will support me.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hope

• As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Good
  • Want
  • Artist

• It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Character
  • Me
  • Just

• It is sweet to see how soon a spring becomes a rill, and a rill runs on into a rivulet, and a rivulet swells into a brook; and before one has time to say 'what are you at?' - before the first tree it ever spoke to is a dummy, or the first hill it ever ran down has turned blue, here we all have airs and graces, demands and assertions of a full grown river.

  

  R.D. Blackmore
  • Time
  • Sweet
  • Tree

• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Me
  • Tree
  • Down