William Ellery Channing Quotes

It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.

William Ellery Channing

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• The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Heart
  • Ideas
  • Honor

• If we don't end war, war will end us.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • War
  • End
  • Will

• 'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Free
  • Thought
  • Slaves

• I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Choices
  • Son

• If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Thinking
  • Interesting
  • Brain

• I'm still learning my craft.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Learning
  • Still
  • Craft

• All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Stop

• Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Well
  • Open
  • Desperation

• I love - you know, I'm a big fan of Prince and Curtis Mayfield and Smoky Robinson. It's something to be said about a man who can be very masculine but still display that sensitive side, and that falsetto does it perfectly.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Man
  • Know
  • Sensitive

• Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Good
  • Power
  • Growth

• Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Done
  • Film
  • Snow

• I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Something
  • Records
  • Release

• Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.

  

  Ice T
  • Value
  • Looking
  • Shock

• When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

  

  Feist
  • Myself
  • First
  • Living

• Anything that looks good makes you feel better.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Better

• My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don't. I don't doubt myself.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette. I dress for men.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Men
  • Understand
  • Dress

• Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Never
  • Said

• Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.

  

  Marie Windsor
  • Up
  • Devil

• It was the early Seventies, and I discovered makeup by going through my mother's fashion magazines. I fell in love with the photos, the models, the fashion.

  

  Francois Nars
  • Mother
  • Fashion
  • Makeup

• Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the person who didn't have it.

  

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • Interesting
  • Adventure
  • Wrong

• Nobody has ever gotten a bigger push than Bill Clinton gave to Obama.

  

  Mario Cuomo

• Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Heaven
  • Build
  • Strenght

• It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Interesting
  • Study
  • Hours