William Cowper Quotes
The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
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I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.
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I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.
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I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time.
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High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.
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I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.
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It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
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At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.
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One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people who share one's truest life. To be a 'free lord' in secret is better than being a public slave, a willing accomplice of repression and injustice.
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You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.
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I think maybe my attention span is too long to tweet.
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By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
