Isaac Watts Quotes
Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.Isaac Watts
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I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.
Paris Hilton -
I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
Dan Hawkins -
Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
Abe Lemons -
I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
Carine Roitfeld -
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
Harrison Ford -
I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
Harrison Birtwistle
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
Parker Posey -
I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
Rachel Kushner -
I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
Manuel Puig -
It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.
Manal al-Sharif -
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
C. V. Raman -
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
E. W. Howe
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In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.
Mac Davis -
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
Edgar Degas -
Sittin' in the mornin' sun, I'll be sittin' when the evenin' comes. Watchin' the ships roll in; And I watch 'em roll away again. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, Watchin' the tide roll away. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, Wastin' time.
Otis Redding -
Gewönlich wird eine Entdeckung nicht auf den einfachsten, sondern auf einem komplizierten Wege gemacht; die einfachen Fälle zeigen sich erst später.
Otto Hahn -
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
Logan Pearsall Smith -
I ain't never called nobody no redskin. I've never been mad, like, 'Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.'
Kevin Hart
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Darkness is strong, and so is Sin,But surely God endures forever.
James Russell Lowell -
We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.
Ben Harper -
One of the most difficult parental challenges is to appropriately discipline children. Child rearing is so individualistic. Every child is different and unique. What works with one may not work with another.
James E. Faust -
For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.
Felix Frankfurter -
Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.
Isaac Watts