Will Durant Quotes

A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.

Will Durant

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• Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Funny
  • Matter
  • Old

• For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

  

  Lactantius
  • Live
  • Speak
  • Living

• A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Reading
  • Kitchen

• I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Wife
  • Said
  • Interview

• I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Start

• I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write something, I think it's the greatest thing in the world; it's like my baby. I just made something out of thin air that exists now in a tangible form. It's the biggest thrill in my life.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Life
  • World
  • Air

• Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Opportunity
  • You
  • Equal

• I always wanted to be known as the Norman Rockwell of television, and 'Happy Days' represented the part of me that wanted to make mainstream America laugh.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • America
  • Happy
  • Television

• 'To Die For,' with Nicole Kidman, is great - her desire to be a part of news, how she uses news to further her career and how it can drive you insane. I love that movie.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Great
  • Love
  • She

• I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Important
  • Money

• A lot of times, when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • High
  • Road

• Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back.

  

  Alison Louise Kennedy
  • Writing
  • Remember

• The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • World
  • Genius
  • Price

• Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure.

  

  G. Bruce Boyer

• When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • House
  • Brain

• There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't know what you're doing. You can keep it for yourself.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Peace

• I always have on my mind the thought that next year I must do something greater, something more wonderful.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Mind

• First of all, I'm not buff enough. I got pushed away from the basket. And even when I didn't, I couldn't get anyone to throw me a pass.

  

  Yao Ming

• It is sweet to dance to violins When Love and Life are fair:To dance to flutes, to dance to lutesIs delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feeTo dance upon the air!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Sweet
  • Fair

• Two thirds of federal disaster aid is weather related,and though we cannot prevent bad weather, we are getting better at predicting it. The Commerce Department's NDRI will help save lives and protect property. We will be working closely with FEMA, the Interior Department and other federal agencies, with state and local governments and with our nation's businesses.

  

  William M. Daley
  • Helping
  • Protect
  • Disaster

• A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.

  

  Will Durant
  • Protect
  • Reputation
  • Halo