William Cowper Quotes
Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. . . . When I can find no other occupation, I think; and when I think, I am very apt to do it in rhyme.
William Cowper
Quotes to Explore
Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
Larry Elder
I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.
Kara Lindsay
I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
Dakota Fanning
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
R. W. Apple, Jr.
It's always an honor to represent your country.
Sammy Sosa
Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
Carine Roitfeld
I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.
Aaron Rodgers
Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
Hans Jonas
I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
Candice Bergen
The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.
Pamela Meyer
I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
Abu Abbas
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
Dani Shapiro
What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.
Banana Yoshimoto
I am an austere president.
Jose Mujica
Money does not buy anyone the right to tell Israel what to do, but long-term involvement, dialogue, and care demand that we must listen.
Ofra Strauss
The Yardbirds came in to the Crawdaddy Club a week after the Stones finished their Sunday night residency. They had done it for almost a year, I think, and then we did it for a year. It was better when they were playing there because when they went they took half the crowd with them and it took us quite a while to build up our own following.
Eric Clapton
Blind Faith
Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. . . . When I can find no other occupation, I think; and when I think, I am very apt to do it in rhyme.
William Cowper
