W. S. Gilbert Quotes

Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.

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• The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Heart
  • Ideas
  • Honor

• I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Colleagues

• Central bankers have had enormous responsibilities thrust on them to compensate, essentially, for the failings of the political system. And my worry is we don't have sufficient tools to do that, but we're not willing to say it.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Political
  • Worry
  • Tools

• My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Feeling
  • Day
  • Color

• It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Color
  • Out
  • Dictates

• I want to get people to connect to the outdoors.

  

  Sally Jewell
  • People
  • Want
  • Outdoors

• Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Power
  • Stealing
  • Few

• I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.

  

  Becki Newton
  • History
  • Career
  • College

• You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.

  

  Jack Black
  • Power
  • Never
  • Underestimate

• The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.

  

  Abraham Robinson
  • Education
  • College
  • California

• I love being photographed, I love the ramp.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Being
  • I Love
  • Photographed

• You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Sweet

• The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Importance

• The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • World
  • Light
  • Best

• Most people don't know how to tell stories.

  

  Ted Rall
  • People
  • Know
  • Most

• All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • House
  • Talent
  • White

• They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • People
  • Time
  • Mother

• I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I'm just a common Korean woman.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Believe
  • Woman
  • Hero

• Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Music
  • Character
  • Alone

• I walk a lot. It keeps me in shape and clears my head.

  

  Raquel Zimmermann
  • Head
  • Shape
  • Keeps

• I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing, don’t remember a world without Noise. My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. Ben and Cillian took me in, raised me. Ben says my ma was the last of the women but everyone says that about everyone’s ma. Ben may not be lying, he believes it’s true, but who knows?

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Women
  • May

• Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Family
  • Die

• I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Community
  • Proud
  • Chinese

• Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Born
  • Treats
  • Virtuous