Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

Miguel de Cervantes

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• We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Daily
  • Safe

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Want
  • Something
  • Go

• There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Long
  • Feeling
  • Trust

• I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Job
  • Never
  • Finish

• I don't like plots. I don't know what a plot means. I can't stand the idea of anything that starts in the beginning - you know, 'beginning, middle and end.'

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Stand

• I surrender to my directors. I do that because I respect them immensely. In fact, a director's talent scares me. I admit that they're more intelligent than me, and I submit to that, as an assistant director does. Even when I have suggestions to make, I don't state them strongly.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Respect
  • Intelligent
  • Talent

• I don't keep secrets from my parents, really; it's pretty open.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Pretty
  • Parents
  • Open

• I think a lot of people don't actually know me. They think, 'She's like this,' or, 'She's like that.' They say I have no emotions - I do, but you couldn't see them then. I had to keep them inside.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• I had no clue about taxes at all. I didn't know they hit your paycheck. There's something that you've always got to put money away for. I didn't know you've got to put money away for it, even though it's coming out your own money. It's like, 'What the heck?'

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Money
  • You
  • Know

• I am a mother first, then a CEO and then a wife.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Mother
  • Wife

• Me, I just don't care about proprietary software. It's not 'evil' or 'immoral,' it just doesn't matter. I think that Open Source can do better, and I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is by working on Open Source, but it's not a crusade – it's just a superior way of working together and generating code.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Money
  • Together
  • Evil

• From a distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Distance

• I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in

  

  Cole Porter
  • Moon
  • Fence
  • Fences

• Tranquilizer in tha trunk put yo ass to sleep man, Birdman Junior got the world in my wingspan.

  

  Lil Wayne
  • World
  • Sleep

• I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

  

  LeRoy Neiman

• If you don't do your part, don't blame God.

  

  Billy Sunday
  • God

• Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.

  

  Adam Savage
  • May
  • Help
  • Thoughts

• The noble lord in this case, as in so many others, first destroys his opponent, and then destroys his own position afterwards. The noble lord is the Prince Rupert of parliamentary discussion: his charge is resistless, but when he returns from the pursuit he always finds his camp in the possession of the enemy.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Enemy
  • Prince

• The Indians, however, could not migrate from one part of the United States to another; neither could they obtain employment as readily as white people, either upon or beyond the Indian reservations.

  

  Nelson A. Miles
  • People

• Everyone keeps me telling me how great a knee replacement is. Whitey Ford said it was great and so did Ralph Branca. If I had one of those, I don't know that I would retire. But if I left for a month or more, who's going to want me back?

  

  Don Zimmer
  • Great
  • Replacement
  • Knee

• My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Thoughts
  • Gathering
  • Wool