Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

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• I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Done
  • Think

• I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • Think
  • You
  • Confident

• I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Think
  • Science
  • Mistake

• I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Sun
  • Inspired
  • Look

• A Bollywood hero, for most people, has been a Raj, a Rahul or a Prem... it's now a part of the psyche.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Hero
  • Now

• I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Famous
  • Name-Dropper

• I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• Scotland is the best place in the whole world.

  

  Gail Porter
  • World
  • Best
  • Place

• I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Wife
  • Said
  • Girlfriend

• To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Dream
  • Eyes
  • Taken

• The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Pride
  • Ignorance
  • Self

• Prior to my arrival at the Crowne Plaza in Indianapolis, my agent and I decided that it would be best not to participate in any drills at the combine. We wanted to wait until my pro day at Virginia, where I could limit the distractions and just focus on being my best.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Day
  • Focus
  • Best

• Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.

  

  Larry Cohen
  • Control
  • Movies
  • Television

• In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Content
  • Japan

• I trained as a dancer when I was much younger, for a large amount of time, like 6 or 7 years. Not to be a ballet dancer, actually, but I thought it was a complement for an actor. I thought that actors should know how to move, should know how to juggle, should know how to do acrobatics.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Know
  • Thought

• I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Relationship
  • Person

• In fashion design, you can divide people into two groups. You have people who come with an aesthetic that is there forever, even if it evolves. Then you have people I call 'jumpers.' One season it can be this; the next season it's completely something else. I always knew I am more of a jumper.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Forever

• I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • Looking
  • Walk

• If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • World
  • God
  • Love

• I laughed until my fat hurt.

  

  Cathy Lamb
  • Hurt
  • Fat
  • Laughed

• The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Poet
  • Artists
  • Journalist

• Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips.

  

  Newell Dwight Hillis
  • Leader
  • Turn
  • Self-Reliance

• Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Poet
  • Turn
  • Infectious