W. S. Gilbert Quotes

I am the Captain of the Pinafore ; And a right good captain too! . . . . And I'm never, never sick at sea! What, never? No, never! What never? Hardly ever! He's hardly ever sick at sea! Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the hardy Captain of the Pinafore!

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• It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Private Life

• I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Children
  • Husband
  • Find

• CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • You
  • Air

• What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Small
  • City
  • Like

• I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Work
  • Money
  • Looking

• My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Prove

• Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • Real
  • School

• No days off. I'm a workaholic.

  

  Wale
  • Days
  • Workaholic
  • Off

• The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.

  

  Randall Terry
  • America
  • High
  • Community

• Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.

  

  Barry McGee
  • People
  • Mission
  • Graffiti

• The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Community
  • Intelligence

• Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Common
  • Privacy
  • Sitting

• I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Want
  • Really
  • Mayor

• It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Funny
  • Kind
  • Dark

• A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.

  

  Patricia Rae
  • Family
  • You
  • Union

• I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Desire
  • Politics
  • Suited

• I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Favorite

• I'm a perfectionist, which is bad at times but very good at other times.

  

  Eiza Gonzalez
  • Good
  • Bad

• I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • God
  • Believe
  • Religion

• What's the trick to writing a good bad guy? Well, for me, it's always been the idea that you pit yourself against authority, you know? I think that's what it takes - and then you can write villainous characters.

  

  Brian Azzarello
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Bad

• Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.

  

  Peter Dinklage
  • Live
  • Bad
  • Fun

• Good-quality protein is very hard to come by in prison. Tuna is good, but tuna doesn't have texture. Mackerel is meaty.

  

  Charlie Shrem
  • Good
  • Quality

• I am the Captain of the Pinafore ; And a right good captain too! . . . . And I'm never, never sick at sea! What, never? No, never! What never? Hardly ever! He's hardly ever sick at sea! Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the hardy Captain of the Pinafore!

  

  W. S. Gilbert
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