Eustace Budgell Quotes
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
Quotes to Explore
-
The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
-
The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
-
If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
-
We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
-
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
-
This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
-
My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
-
When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
-
I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
-
Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
-
My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
-
I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!
-
Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
-
I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
-
I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
-
I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
-
I think I will always stay involved in tennis and would like to give back by helping out young players. I have done a little commentary and may one day enjoy doing that again.
-
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
-
I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
-
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
-
I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.
-
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
