Isaac Watts Quotes

At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good account at last.

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• From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Family
  • Kids
  • House

• Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.

  

  Barry White
  • Strong
  • Families
  • Brothers

• I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Success
  • Best
  • Color

• I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Something
  • Records
  • Release

• To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Up
  • Same
  • Too Much

• Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Work
  • Success
  • Best

• Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • People
  • Believe
  • Enemy

• An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Agent
  • Simply
  • Ambassador

• For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Small

• I wanted just a song to sing, and there came a certain point where I couldn't sing anything. So I had to write what I wanted to sing 'cos nobody else was writing what I wanted to sing.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Writing
  • Song

• The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Age
  • Stop
  • Wisdom

• My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Why
  • Friends
  • Mother

• Because I've been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I've learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Soul

• Character is power.

  

  Booker T. Washington
  • Character
  • Power

• Because my father was an army officer, I was told to enter the military school during the war. Luckily or unluckily, one month before the entrance examination, I got polio, which made my right arm numb. It's still numb.

  

  Masatoshi Koshiba
  • School
  • War
  • Father

• There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Work
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• When I was a teenager, I used to watch 'Beverly Hills 90210' - which is totally aging myself - and I'd try to recreate the makeup that they did on Jennie Garth at home.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Home
  • Makeup
  • Teenager

• If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

  

  Max Irons
  • Up
  • Drama
  • Teen

• One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

  

  Christopher Isherwood
  • People
  • Up

• I got a call on a Sunday. 'Do you want to do 'The Godfather?' I thought they were kidding me, right? I said, 'Yes, of course, I love that book' - which I had never read.

  

  Albert S. Ruddy
  • Book
  • Sunday
  • Godfather

• What I've found is there is no barometer that allows you to chart when you're oversaturating a desire. You're left really trying to respond on a gut level, because by the time you might do research, it's already too late. There's also a healthy tension between what are very sound business objectives and a very amorphous desire to preserve what's special.

  

  Christopher Meledandri
  • Trying
  • Desire
  • Healthy

• I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly. It's swings and roundabouts.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • May
  • Together
  • Girlfriend

• It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Situation

• At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good account at last.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Book
  • Giving
  • Healthy