Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the first lasted him from night to morning, indicating a sound body and a mind free from care; but his master, being unable to sleep himself awakened him, saying, "I am amazed, Sancho, at the torpor of thy soul; it seems as if thou wert made of marble or brass, insensible of emotion or sentiment!

Miguel de Cervantes

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• If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.

  

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  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• I trust no one - that microphone, that book.

  

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• I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.

  

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  • Up
  • Growing
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• Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

  

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• I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Country
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• Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Government
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• The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

  

  Edmund Waller
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• In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Summer
  • Year
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• He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
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• When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.

  

  Lara Stone
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  • Old

• It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • You
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• I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Kids
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• The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Life
  • Experience
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• And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Time
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• Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

  

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  • Mistake
  • Debt
  • Both

• I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!

  

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  • Wish
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• I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it. The front of the envelope was facing the table, so I didn't know what was in it. I opened it and out spilled all this hair. I turned the envelop over and it says, 'Clipped from President Garfield's head on his deathbed.'

  

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• I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.

  

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  • War
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• To be perfectly honest with you, having a mother as an actress -- who I watched struggle tremendously during my childhood -- and to watch fluctuations of ups and downs is difficult. She did mainly television, so I think I associated that with a life of inconsistency. As I've come into my own, I realize it has nothing to do with the medium. It has broadened my horizons in my own mind and ultimately it is about the character for me. If I read something and I fall in love with the character, no matter what it is, I'm eager to do it. That is what happened with Gwen [on "Angel"].

  

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• I'd never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified - I couldn't sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set.

  

  Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • Sleep

• I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Sleep
  • Forever

• Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces...

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Night
  • Moment
  • Place

• It really helped me as a writer to understand how other writers think.

  

  Ace Young

• Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the first lasted him from night to morning, indicating a sound body and a mind free from care; but his master, being unable to sleep himself awakened him, saying, "I am amazed, Sancho, at the torpor of thy soul; it seems as if thou wert made of marble or brass, insensible of emotion or sentiment!

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Sleep