Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .

Oliver Goldsmith

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• People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

  

  Ed Markey
  • People
  • Money
  • Upside Down

• I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

  

  Dana Fox
  • Amazing
  • Thought
  • Awesome

• I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Feeling
  • Progress
  • Values

• I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • Idea
  • Successful
  • Ability

• Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Song
  • Nice
  • Lies

• I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Myself
  • Audience
  • Now

• Honestly, there's so many great benefits of wearing a kilt: It's very free, it's got its own aeration, and they're very comfortable.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Great
  • Free
  • Comfortable

• All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Work
  • Information
  • Computers

• 'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Man

• In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Kids
  • Career
  • College

• As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.

  

  T-Pain
  • Music
  • Long
  • Care

• As Akins observes, it is not the point of our sensory systems that they should detect 'basic' or 'natural' properties of the environment, but that they should serve our 'narcissistic' purposes in staying alive; nature doesn't build epistemic engines.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Nature
  • Environment

• It's unbelievable that Phil had to wait so long to get in to the Hall of Fame. Maris's home run record in 1961 has become something of a curse. He wasn't just a home run hitter, he could do everything-hit in the clutch, field, throw and run.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Long
  • Home

• The silky hush of intimate things, fragrant with my fragrance, steal softly down, so loth to rob me of my last dear concealment.

  

  P. L. Travers

• Dogma and hierarchy are endemic to such structures...indeed, such are the structures of any theocracy.

  

  Dan Simmons

• We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself - he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life.

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Art

• And now the sagacious reader, who is capable of reading into these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception of the serious feelings with which I then set foot in Emmendingen.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Reading
  • Serious

• I've got no problem whatsover with collar bars coming back in. I need to look a tiny bit older before I can dress like that the entire time - otherwise I'm going to look like I'm in 'Bugsy Malone.'

  

  Jamie Cullum
  • Time

• I love doing laundry! It's so satisfying. I love the way it smells. I love doing the sheets.

  

  Keri Russell

• Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Place
  • Dead
  • Punk

• That's a point that I'm concerned about. But if you look at the core inflation rate, it's actually below wage increases.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Point
  • Wage
  • Inflation rate

• You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .

  

  Oliver Goldsmith