Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.Oliver Goldsmith
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Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
Barack Obama -
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
Natascha McElhone -
I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
Wadada Leo Smith -
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Samuel Butler -
I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
Malorie Blackman
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
Malcolm D. Lee -
People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
Carice van Houten -
I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
Dan O'Brien -
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
Caleb Cushing -
I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
Natalia Tena
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
Ed Asner -
You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
Jack Scalia -
I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
Aaron Levie -
If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
J. B. Pritzker -
My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.
Becky G -
I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
Tamsin Egerton
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As for what l'm making now, perhaps it's art; but if it isn't, at least it's something else equally interesting to me!
George Rickey -
When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box covered in silver and bits of cellophane. I'd close him up in it and joggle him and say, 'We're in Victorian times now... and now we're in Egyptian times, and I can see all these pyramids and pharaohs.'
Kate Williams -
I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.
Jasmine Guy -
Sally Field looks amazing in general, never mind her age! She's a phenomenally talented actress and has had a career spanning so many decades.
Alison Sweeney -
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
Oliver Goldsmith