William Cowper Quotes

Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.

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• I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Think
  • Reason
  • Movies

• Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Funny
  • Me
  • Hilarious

• My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Parents
  • Brother

• All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

  

  Tacitus
  • Things
  • All Things
  • Rome

• My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Just
  • Enlightenment

• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • School
  • Greatest

• C Kalyan has been amazing and totally committed as a producer.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Amazing
  • Committed
  • Producer

• Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.

  

  Galina Vishnevskaya
  • Know
  • Color
  • Voice

• Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Relationship
  • Spiritual

• Growing up, I was always the small guy.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Small

• Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kids
  • You
  • Exercise

• I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes!

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Sometimes
  • Fruit
  • Apple

• I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Looking Forward
  • Shah Rukh Khan

• 'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Party
  • Everything
  • Press

• Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Late

• The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Politics
  • Bible
  • Special

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Heart

• How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves! ... You can always - always - give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness!

  

  Anne Frank
  • World
  • Great
  • Help

• I've always thought that I'm not really a guitar player, but I just practised so much that I developed into a kind of a bit of a musician, but I've often doubted my musical ear. If someone sings me a melody, I have to improvise on that melody, because I can't retain the information they've given me. That's why I still practise today, I suppose, because I still feel inadequate.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Today
  • Kind
  • Player

• Maybe I'll get into a Bond film... I always thought I'd be a Bond Girl when I was young.

  

  Anne Reid
  • Girl

• Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.

  

  William Cowper
  • Kind
  • Kindness
  • Slave