Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

Miguel de Cervantes

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Teach
  • Inside
  • Nobody

• Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Want
  • Unique
  • Athlete

• Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Star
  • Child
  • Fame

• You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Up
  • Home
  • Changes

• My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Up
  • Work
  • Job

• One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is Catherine in 'Wuthering Heights.' I like the classics.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Reading

• The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Authority

• When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Black-and-white

• I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'

  

  Gary Jennings
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Basketball

• I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mean
  • Traditions
  • Cultural

• And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Work
  • Player
  • End

• Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Time
  • Live
  • You

• Are kids smarter than adults? All evidence points to that being true.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Kids
  • True
  • Evidence

• I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Human
  • Look
  • See

• The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Best

• How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Men
  • Women
  • America

• I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always trying to stay connected that way and the irony is that it's actually disconnecting us from everything else because we're not just focused on what's in front of us; we focus on what's in our hand or off to the side.

  

  Carly Pope
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Hand

• I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and that I have no gift for actually doing science myself. But I'm very interested in others who practice science and in the stories of science.

  

  Andrea Barrett
  • Science
  • Practice

• If you look at the guys in the '70s, like Led Zeppelin, they had bigger planes than we do, they had more money. But they weren't singing about it.

  

  Lenny Kravitz
  • Money
  • Singing

• All cultures have had a belief in ghosts and a fear of ghosts. People have always told stories, and everybody likes being frightened, especially when you feel safe. Personally, I find them scarier than vampires or zombies.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • People
  • Fear
  • Find

• The story revolved around this universal identifiable fear that we must all have, at some point, when you commit yourself to being with another person, to have and to hold until death do us part. It's a huge thing. I just felt like it was a brilliant examination of what would happen, if the person that you trusted implicitly and thought you knew every follicle and pour of, inside and out, started to not be that person anymore, inside. Physically, they're still there, but they're not there mentally.

  

  Harry Treadaway
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Person

• Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Fear
  • Fine
  • Wit