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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Christopher Isherwood
  • People
  • Up

• Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

  

  Donald Cargill
  • Friends
  • Reading
  • Farewell

• I'd still stand in line all day to get into an AC/DC show, because that was the one show when I was younger that kind of changed my life. Because it was a little wrong. I think I was 14 or 15, first concert without the parents, you know, and they were all worried because we were going to an AC/DC show, and it was an amphitheater.

  

  Eric Church
  • Life
  • Parents

• To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make.

  

  Antony Beevor
  • Mistake

• The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writer
  • Freak
  • Examination

• To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.

  

  Chris Parnell
  • Giving
  • Teacher
  • Personality

• Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Great
  • Real
  • Space

• The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Black
  • Strong
  • Rose

• I was a Marvel kid, and I would have to say that Spiderman is my all-time favorite character. As I got older, my tastes developed a little bit more, and I would follow certain writers; like, I really got into Grant Morrison. From the time I was 5, I was into comic books. From the time I learned how to read, it was all about comic books.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • Time
  • Character

• 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