Will Durant Quotes

Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.

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• As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Important
  • History
  • Think

• The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Long
  • Humanity
  • Survival

• I am a very selfish person.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Person
  • Selfish

• I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Myself
  • Decision

• I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.

  

  Yuna
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Beautiful

• I'm not really massively into going out. I'm much more of a hibernator. It's nice to have people come to your house or go to someone's house, I think.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Think
  • House

• My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Heart
  • Kind
  • Size

• I was an outsider as a kid, and I grew up around a lot of violence.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Kid

• Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Hair
  • Baseball

• The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

  

  Jess Walter

• We all have to start somewhere, and doing something is better than nothing at all. Start small so you don't get discouraged and give up. Remember it is all about consistency.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Small

• The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.

  

  Emanuel Celler
  • Growth

• As an actor, you're supposed to take jobs that will challenge you or force fans to see you in a different light. By the '90s, I wasn't really an actor anymore. I was someone who went on the road with these gigantic concerts.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Different
  • Light
  • Challenge

• I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.

  

  Chuck D
  • World
  • Enemy

• Maybe we could find some way to send barges of trash to the sun and incinerate it all. Hey, it's an idea. It's an idea!

  

  Adam West
  • Sun

• Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Marriage
  • Friendship

• Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

  

  Jamie Dornan
  • Time
  • Long

• This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Crush
  • Stupidity

• An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Fact
  • Sensation
  • Illustrational

• The reason I love acting is because I feel like acting is all about listening.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Reason
  • Listening
  • Feels

• All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.

  

  O. R. Melling
  • Soul
  • Spiritual
  • Travel

• Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.

  

  Will Durant
  • Reason
  • Magic
  • Civilizations