Stephen Leacock (Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock) Quotes
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.Stephen Leacock
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
Mae West -
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
Karen Morley -
When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
Hannibal Buress -
The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
Urjit Patel
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
Nancy Meyers -
I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
Gary Herbert -
There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.
Rachel Brosnahan -
I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
Nancy Reagan -
I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
Jack White The White Stripes
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Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
Barbara Olson -
Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
Karen Kain -
In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake.
Barbara Steele -
A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.
Alfred North Whitehead -
All men are intellectuals: but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.
Antonio Gramsci -
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
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People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
Irwin Shaw -
I remember watching 'A Streetcar Named Desire' when I was quite young, I was about 12, or 13, and I watched it, thinking, 'Wow. That is pretty cool. I'd like to do something like that.'
Aneurin Barnard -
There are certain things that make restaurants work and a certain kind of DNA that people who excel in restaurants need. But it's a lot like life, in the sense that you get out of it what you put into it.
Joe Bastianich -
Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.
Patrick Ewing -
Performance art is really more of a command than an invitation.
Elvis Mitchell -
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
Stephen Leacock