William Gilmore Simms Quotes
Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.William Gilmore Simms
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
Jackie Kennedy -
There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
Sam Waterston -
I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
Gary Hamel -
Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
Hans Vestberg -
Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
Fletcher Knebel -
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
Larry Wall
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During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.
Ike Skelton -
It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
Damian Lewis -
Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.
Eddie Redmayne -
The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.
S. Jay Olshansky -
You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.
Gary Webb
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Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
Youssou N'Dour -
When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.
Olivier Megaton -
If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.
Fernando Pessoa -
Extremes, though, are always risky and ordinarily downright baneful, and the dangers of prolonged contact with any poetry that seems to exceed what we most familiarly know of the first-class are formidable.
J. D. Salinger -
Die before you Die. There is no chance after.
C. S. Lewis -
I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.
Lance Loud
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The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for - its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.
Florence Nightingale -
I get occasional tweets from people asking what shampoo and conditioner I use. I go straight for the Costco brand, Kirkland brand, the bulk shampoo. That's as far as I go.
Freddie Wong -
How self-centered, how arrogant... Imagine the awesome privilege of living in a society where you get to choose what you eat at each and every meal. When I was a kid, I was a vegetarian and a vegan for long stretches... I was a commodity cheese-atarian.
Sherman Alexie -
Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.
George Bernard Shaw -
Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.
William Gilmore Simms