Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.

Thomas Carlyle

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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.

Jack Dee
- People
- Think
- Enthusiasm
Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

Harold Bloom
Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.

Yotam Ottolenghi
- Parents
- More
- Shine
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

Rachael Leigh Cook
- Challenge
- Acting
- Loved
I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.

Talia Balsam
We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.

Vaclav Klaus
- Friends
- Young
- Face