R. M. Williams Quotes

Before I was fourteen I planned to leave school forever, and trust to fortune to get an education. At that time it did not occur to me that I would need to study the English language and acquire a knowledge of geography, history and other subjects so necessary to understanding the modern world. That was to come many years later…

R. M. Williams

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• I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Never

• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Black
  • Dad

• I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Taken
  • Care
  • Worry

• My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Different
  • Athlete
  • Loser

• The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • People
  • Success
  • Bored

• While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Happy

• Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Law
  • Foundation
  • Stability

• If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Information

• Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Women
  • Experience

• Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.

  

  Ian McKeever
  • Die
  • Learn
  • Everyone

• The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Think
  • Personality
  • I Think

• When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Driving

• If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Back

• Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • War
  • Help
  • Better

• No person is just one particular emotion.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Person
  • Emotion
  • Just

• Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Worst
  • Hunger
  • Bring

• Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find the bread.

  

  Daniel Thambyrajah Niles
  • Bread
  • Beggar
  • Evangelism

• When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • School
  • Know
  • Fight

• I remember one day during my freshman year of high school, when as usual I was obsessively listening to a cast recording: it may have been 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' And I remember sitting there, totally absorbed, saying to myself, 'I can do this.'

  

  James Van Der Beek
  • School
  • May
  • Remember

• When I got out of high school, I thought, I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.

  

  Gregg Allman
  • School
  • High

• Before I was fourteen I planned to leave school forever, and trust to fortune to get an education. At that time it did not occur to me that I would need to study the English language and acquire a knowledge of geography, history and other subjects so necessary to understanding the modern world. That was to come many years later…

  

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