Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

As aromatic plants bestowNo spicy fragrance while they grow;But crush'd or trodden to the ground,Diffuse their balmy sweets around.

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• We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Task

• I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Science
  • End
  • Theory

• A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.

  

  S. Ansky
  • Live
  • Soul
  • Fate

• Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Trust
  • Forget
  • Performance

• I'm always gonna have the darker edgy music; it is always in my pocket because it comes so naturally to me.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Me
  • Always

• Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Food
  • Perfect
  • Crazy

• I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Children
  • Job
  • Book

• Power, privilege, and violence are not, and never were, strictly Southern issues in America.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Power
  • America
  • Violence

• I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will attempt to bring the highest level of my own prose, and to make it sparkle.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Style
  • Will
  • My Own

• The truth seems to be that we live in concepts of the imagination before the reason has established them. If this is true, then reason is simply the methodizer of the imagination.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Live
  • Truth
  • True

• There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Life
  • Time
  • Control

• We get better search results and we see more appropriate advertising when we let Google know who we are.

  

  James Gleick
  • Search

• I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Music

• I am a chilled-out person. But if people call me by my name, I hope they pronounce it right. I get called Baron, sometimes Varun, and my surname is often changed to Sobit.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • People
  • Hope

• They say pregnancies can differ depending on whether you're carrying a girl or boy, so for me, I think having a little boy is definitely easier on my body - or I'm just better prepared!

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Girl
  • Boy

• I started in movies in 1963, and the first big one was 'Rosemary's Baby' in 1967. While you don't notice it right away, it finally dawns on you that 80% of the time, you're doing nothing.

  

  Charles Grodin
  • Time
  • Baby

• Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Brain
  • Emotional
  • Intellectual

• I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Never
  • Before
  • Wrote

• The Night World isn't a place. It's all around us. The creatures of Night World are beautiful and deadly and irresitable to humans. Your best friend could be one-so could your crush.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Night

• Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.

  

  Cyrus Augustus Bartol
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Science

• My general advice for writers/comedians is, make stuff you like and are proud of. Put it in a place where people can see it, whether that's onstage or on the Internet or wherever. Just do the things that make you happy creatively, and then show them to people.

  

  Josh Gondelman
  • Happy
  • Advice
  • Show

• As aromatic plants bestowNo spicy fragrance while they grow;But crush'd or trodden to the ground,Diffuse their balmy sweets around.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
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