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

• Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Born
  • Mountain
  • Mood

• What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Political

• I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Choices
  • Son

• I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie.

  

  Michael Madsen
  • Decision
  • Movies
  • Four

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

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Born
  • Treats
  • Virtuous