Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

Oliver Goldsmith

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• When you buy me, you are buying a Ferrari. If you drive a Ferrari, you put premium petrol in the tank, you hit the motorway, and you step on the gas.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Buy
  • Ferrari
  • Premium

• Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Character
  • Girl

• By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Doing
  • Direction
  • Group

• I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • World
  • Live
  • Write

• An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Will
  • Two
  • Drink

• We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Vision
  • Solution
  • Ending

• Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Bad
  • Police
  • Nobody

• The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Lost
  • Story
  • Difficult

• Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • God
  • Education
  • Evil

• Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Again
  • Cheese
  • Pasta

• I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Woman
  • Will
  • Presidential

• How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Child
  • Promise

• Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Women
  • Mother

• I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

  

  Mae West
  • Worry
  • Interest
  • Diamond

• At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Poverty is the worst form of violence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Poverty
  • Worst

• In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • People
  • Power
  • Inspired

• Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Trying
  • Same
  • Self

• Sometimes I have to shut off the omnipresent disco ball and flashing lights that are always in my head. It's a part of maturing, I guess - just learning that it's not just always about a quick, easy fix of getting people to dance.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • People
  • Learning
  • Dance

• Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Respect