William Cowper Quotes

But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown!

William Cowper

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• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Lucky
  • Old

• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.

  

  Wale
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Wind

• I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Use
  • Boots
  • Edmonton

• The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Good
  • Know
  • Understand

• It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Important
  • Interesting

• The sad fact is that it would be fair to say that United is a generic, bureaucratic, tired company. A sort of DMV in the sky. No real culture. No real strategy. No real expectations for employees or customers. All of which is a shame.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Real
  • Culture
  • Sad

• China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • May
  • China
  • Bitcoin

• Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Love
  • Done
  • Small

• Pilates is great.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Pilates

• I didn't choose acting. The universe did.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Universe
  • Acting
  • Choose

• The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • People
  • Music
  • Respect

• Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.

  

  Jack Horner
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Looking

• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Joke
  • Call
  • Colleagues

• My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Never
  • Books
  • React

• I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

  

  Cavour
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Truth

• In New York, I am barely recognised, or people don't really care. When I go to Portugal, I go outside to a public place and am recognised constantly.

  

  Sara Sampaio
  • New York
  • Recognised
  • Portugal

• We just sent some footage to ABC Primetime, who is doing a segment that alleges to tell our side of the story, and in that, a week before she became ill, there's Eliza Jane at her friend's birthday party, blowing, over and over again, a party horn - the one with the long, curly thing that sticks out when you blow it and retracts when you breathe in - over and over and over again...this child that, a few weeks later, would be said to have died of fatal pneumonia.

  

  Christine Maggiore
  • Child
  • Story
  • Died

• But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown!

  

  William Cowper
  • God
  • Art
  • Crowns