Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.

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• We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • School
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Death
  • Scared
  • Ninja

• I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Country
  • May
  • Problem

• The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Calm
  • Worried

• I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • People
  • Friends
  • Thought

• Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Depression
  • Loss
  • Insomnia

• It's the way you ride the trail that counts.

  

  Dale Evans
  • You
  • Ride
  • Trail

• To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Acting
  • Theory
  • Student

• I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Problem
  • Listening
  • Emotions

• Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Happy

• The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • America
  • Down

• Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Fear
  • Feelings
  • More

• I have friends who are movie stars, and I think it's just as hard a job as being a working actor. But it's a different job, and it's not the one I want.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Different
  • Job
  • Friends

• You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • You
  • Eating
  • Eat

• I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.

  

  J Mascis
  • Work
  • Why
  • Enjoy

• I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to end, and so I always have this big novel that I have to adapt into a movie as I go.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Beginning
  • End

• The holiness of the realIs always there, accessibleIn total immanence. The nodesOf transcendence coagulateIn you, the experiencer,And in the other, the lover.

  

  Kenneth Rexroth

• The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.

  

  Albert Barnes
  • God
  • Soul
  • Desire

• I've always been able to work as an actor and support my family and did great jobs, and more often than not, I got to turn down jobs that I didn't really want to do for various reasons or refuse to work with people I didn't like - and there are quite a few.

  

  Christoph Waltz
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that's done, you can be sure I will be a lazy boy. I like to take time and relax and enjoy life.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

  

  Douglas MacArthur
  • Broken
  • Lazy

• Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Lazy