Isaac Watts Quotes

Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.

Isaac Watts

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• I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Home
  • Energy
  • New York

• When you fall in love, you become weak.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Her

• Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

  

  Nas
  • Hip Hop
  • Noise
  • Spotlight

• What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Bad
  • Food
  • Dinner

• I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • May
  • Death
  • You

• I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Long
  • Power
  • Society

• There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Myself
  • Enjoy

• My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Simple
  • Style
  • Very

• There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Day
  • Internet
  • They Say

• 'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Up
  • Age

• You know, people really don't understand what actors do.

  

  Sally Field
  • People
  • Know
  • Understand

• This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Growing
  • Islam

• The thing about death is that it's honest.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Death
  • Honest
  • About

• I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Love
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• Otherwise it was quiet-that eerie, not-quite-comforting quiet one finds in small towns before dawn.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Small
  • Comforting

• Thrice three protections, Returning to the old places, With a steed used to the field.

  

  Taliesin

• In the federal confirmation process, a standard question from the judiciary committee is, 'Well, if you're confirmed will you legislate?' And, with a look of horror, the nominee says, 'Oh, I won't legislate.' Well, what about the law of contract and tort; where do they think it came from, the stork?

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Law
  • Question

• This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Nature
  • Bird

• The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Future
  • Light
  • Present

• Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality...

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Life
  • Men
  • May

• I want to be able to make sure that we have enough capital to survive at least three consecutive failures. If you want to make a small fortune in the launch vehicle business, start with a large one.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Business
  • Small

• A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which will result, which is the only way to ascend towards God - to create like our Divine Master.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Art
  • Study
  • Creation

• Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Mind
  • Imagination
  • Study