William Cullen Bryant Quotes

Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.

William Cullen Bryant

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• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Friends

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Great
  • Trying

• Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Read
  • Because
  • Shakespeare

• I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Language
  • Years
  • Flowers

• However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • People
  • Life
  • Change

• Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Dance
  • Exercise
  • Active

• You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Real
  • Learn

• It's nice to film in somewhere that you actually love being. Usually, you're in a studio for months on end, and you never see any daylight, so you really make the most of it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Love
  • Nice
  • End

• The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Myself
  • Care
  • Writer

• My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Job
  • Day
  • First

• I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • School
  • Education

• I'm a historian in my own mind.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Mind
  • Own
  • My Own

• Few things are as essential as education.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Education
  • Things
  • Few

• All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Issues
  • Early
  • Self-Esteem

• I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Think
  • Want
  • Song

• Our current constitution does indeed concentrate too much power and resources at the centre, which has impeded national development.

  

  Atiku Abubakar
  • Power
  • Development
  • Constitution

• The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Heart
  • Attitude
  • Pride

• For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Words

• I think people love it when anybody acts bad; its not particular to me.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Thinking
  • Positive
  • Winning