Will Durant Quotes
Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.Will Durant
Quotes to Explore
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
Ian Hart -
I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
Gary Speed -
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
Nancy Astor -
Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
Damien Rice -
I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.
Jack Black -
Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.
Manfred von Richthofen
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Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.
Uwe Boll -
Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
Gabrielle Union -
What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.
Natasha Richardson -
If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.
K. Eric Drexler -
Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
Eden Hazard -
This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
T. C. Boyle
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Letting someone down is not criminal action.
Patrick McHenry -
Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.
Larry McMurtry -
I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.
Abbie Cobb -
I have always been drawn to fashion from an aesthetic and consumer standpoint. I honestly never thought that I could take my business training and apply it here. I worked in retail and was into fashion. It was something I liked, and people trusted my opinion.
Imran Amed -
Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that was a kids' movie, but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.
Jack Black -
You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice.
Frederick Wiseman
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The center has shifted in our politics. I'm really at the center. And all the other candidates are to the right of me.
Dennis Kucinich -
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
Carl Sandburg -
I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
Gary Larson -
I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'
Malin Akerman -
I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument.
John Frusciante -
Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.
Will Durant