Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe,That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.

Oliver Goldsmith

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• I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Play
  • Like
  • Someone

• My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Great
  • Family
  • Mother

• The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Knowledge
  • Thing
  • Teaching

• Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Different
  • Way
  • Wise

• There are times when I need to dig up the diagram for a type of satellite dish, for instance, but I just can't seem to phrase this need correctly. As a result, I'm inundated by advertising for satellite television and people's online customer reviews of such services when, in fact, I was only trying to figure out what a certain component is called.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• I was actually a Cowboys fan.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Fan
  • Actually
  • Cowboys

• It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Creation
  • Now
  • Foot

• I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Teach

• It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Woman

• There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Music
  • Long
  • Thought

• Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.

  

  Pam Grier
  • American
  • Today
  • Black

• It's not the average people that come to my show.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Show
  • Average

• I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Up
  • Job
  • New York

• I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Live
  • Mean
  • Never

• I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Want
  • House
  • Me

• Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Baby
  • Eating
  • Bear

• Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Poetry
  • Creator
  • Queen

• I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Acting
  • Young
  • Student

• Usually in a Smosh sketch, we get 60 shots, 12 hours to shoot - we're just going 'bam, bam, bam.'

  

  Ian Hecox
  • Hours
  • Shots
  • Sketch

• There isn't any one material that's mine. It all depends on the context. For example, I did a house that had the most exquisite marble applications. That sounds ostentatious, but it wasn't, given the context. The color white I subscribe to extensively. I love thinking about color, but I often go with white.

  

  Annabelle Selldorf
  • Thinking
  • House
  • Color

• Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Intelligence
  • Loses
  • Gains

• I'm sure there's a right way and there's a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do what you think is right.

  

  Mike Singletary
  • Thinking
  • Wrong
  • Bottom

• I'm a Star Wars fanatic.

  

  Matthew Vaughn
  • Star

• Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe,That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith