William Cobbett Quotes

The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.

William Cobbett

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• Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Music
  • Science
  • Literature

• I do think one should have clean feet.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Think
  • Feet
  • Clean

• It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Why
  • Me
  • Practice

• Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Like
  • Impossible
  • Selling

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Me
  • Imagination
  • Matter

• A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • True
  • Dream
  • Me

• When you have girl children, they torture you! If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. They say, 'Mom, you didn't really wear that?' And I say, 'Yes, and pretty much everyone saw it.'

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Children
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Myself
  • Finding
  • Secrecy

• Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • You
  • Me

• Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Black
  • Change
  • Moving

• I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Time
  • Women
  • Power

• The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Book
  • Dirtiest

• When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Land
  • Over
  • Edge

• I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • People
  • Great
  • Fun

• I'm a father and I'm a husband and I care about what's happening on our streets.

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
  • Father
  • Care
  • Husband

• Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Kind
  • Eyes
  • Television

• I don't even think my children are aware of what I've done. When somebody will ask me for my autograph, Spenser-Margaret will say, 'You must watch 'Charlie's Angels.' You know, that's like all I've done to them.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Children
  • Done
  • Think

• If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

  

  Mary Kay Ash

• Beauty isn't about having a pretty face it's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Soul

• He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • Enemy

• We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Trying
  • Doing
  • Understand

• The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.' If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate that the baby is flame retardant. You take action.

  

  Al Gore
  • Science
  • Action
  • Fire

• The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Believe
  • Fall
  • Military