W. S. Gilbert Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.
-
I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.
-
I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for everything that I've had in my life. It was a personal choice. My parents would have helped me in any way whatsoever, but for me, you know what? I can make my own way.
-
In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
-
My connections to Broward are long, and they are deep, and I'm proud of them.
-
I did a whole lot of work before taking up my first movie. From TV commercials to Telugu films, I learnt a lot from them all.
-
History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.
-
If you got a dope girl, there's going to be people that want her. But I don't know, I've always kept my 'A-game' on point. I just make a point to make sure the woman that I'm with is taken care of. You got to keep it new, so I go out of my way to make them feel special.
-
I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
-
I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.
-
Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
-
I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.
-
I eat all the time, and I run all the time.
-
We like to be the people who go - can go out into the world and say we're the people seeking places that need bridges built and need the kind of energy that we bring, and then actively doing the show. We will pay for it ourselves. We just want to bring the kind of enjoyment that we know we can bring.
-
Dating co-stars is natural. When you're working with someone, it's habit.
-
This day is a day that is proud to me, having occupied the position that I did for the past twelve years, and been misunderstood by your race. This is the first opportunity I have had during that time to say that I am your friend. I am here a representative of the southern people, one more slandered and maligned than any man in the nation.
-
Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi;Consider the Empire and Gandhi.
-
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
-
As a writer, as a lyricist, you're just trying to make sure that you're not repeating yourself. And that's a danger for a lot of people. So for me, I just try to keep taking corners and trying to find new paths.
-
So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.
-
I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.
-
The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to a certain point. That is, they open psychic areas that would not otherwise be available to the writer. But I feel that once these areas have been opened and the writer has reached them, he is able to get back there in the future without the drug.
-
There are free men with the spirit of a slave, and slaves whose spirit is full of freedom. He who is true to his inner self is a free man, while he whose entire life is merely a stage for what is good and beautiful in the eyes of others, is a slave.
-
Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.
