William Godwin Quotes

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

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• Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Good
  • Long
  • Know

• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Think
  • Need
  • I Think

• I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Singing

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

  

  Jack Germond
  • Heart
  • True
  • Newspaper

• Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Work
  • Think
  • Training

• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Growth
  • Ambition
  • Proceeds

• People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • Change
  • Say

• In terms of script, Bollywood should learn from South Indian scripts. Not talking about the fights and action, I am talking about the drama bit.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Action
  • Drama
  • Scripts

• I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Great
  • Respect

• The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • War
  • Together

• Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

  

  Adam Driver
  • School
  • Myself
  • Acting

• I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Perfection
  • Excellence
  • Days

• Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Fiction
  • Short
  • Experiments

• I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • World
  • Trying
  • Career

• Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Stop

• Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Men
  • Today
  • Direction

• Being an actor opened doors for me to explore my emotions as different people and characters, and expand my own inner soul.

  

  Scott Bakula
  • People
  • Different
  • Character

• In endeavouring to recall a few memorials of Mrs. Lawrence Burgoyne, I do it on the same principle that scientific men collect the bones of a mammoth - the whole exists no longer ; but there are sufficient remains to show that it did exist.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Men

• One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to concentrate on lives that are completely other than your own.

  

  Emma Donoghue
  • People

• I wouldn't say (winning is a) relief, but it's a dream. It's a goal that's been reached. So it's very satisfying.

  

  Aaron Baddeley
  • Dream
  • Goal
  • Reached

• I had been doing all my school plays, elementary school, middle school, and high school, and then summer. I'd wanted to act for a long time, and I thought I was going to go to college and do theater, go that route. But 'Superbad' kind of fell on my lap. I was very, very lucky for that.

  

  Christopher Mintz-Plasse
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

  

  William Godwin
  • Men
  • Book