William Blackstone Quotes

Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

William Blackstone

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• I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Guy
  • Cold
  • Battle

• Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • School
  • Remember
  • Learning

• You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • You
  • Questions
  • Ask

• I don't like allegories.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Like

• Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Pain
  • Body
  • Ready

• It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Good
  • Important
  • Focus

• Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Illusions
  • Drop
  • Luggage

• I feel like Nashville has watched me grow up in front of them, which is cool, but it kind of sucks at the same time because you get pigeonholed, like, 'Oh, she's the girl with the long hair that wears fairy dresses.' That was me at one point because I was new and I was young. But we all grow up.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Hair

• I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.

  

  Jack Lew
  • People
  • World
  • Career

• I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Husband
  • First
  • Dress

• My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Now
  • Have
  • Behind

• There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Hate
  • Doctors
  • Medication

• I write novels and other things.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Things
  • Write
  • Novels

• The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • People
  • Death
  • Saying

• When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Me
  • Control
  • Loved

• A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Mind
  • Mouth
  • Flow

• Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore their existence altogether, referring to them only under provocation and then with apology, but, like its more material brother, this boil on the neck of the spirit can hardly be forgotten either by the sufferer or anyone else in his vicinity. The malady is ludicrous, sad, excruciating and, above all, instantly diagnosable.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • World
  • Nice
  • Brother

• Some of the stuff, I absolutely don't remember recording it, it's been so long. But I do like to try to throw in something a little different for the audience once in a while. Because a lot of these people who come to see have come back many, many times.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.

  

  Confucius
  • Learn
  • Object
  • Apprehensive

• The idea of a youth-based society that you live in for a certain time and then you no longer live anymore is an interesting idea for a movie, but you need young people that people want to go see.

  

  Joel Silver
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Time
  • Men
  • Memories