William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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• I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • First
  • Names
  • Vegas

• When I was shooting in Pollachi, I had tried out a lot of local food, most of them I don't remember the names of.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Remember
  • Food
  • Names

• I like to play things that people understand, or maybe tunes that they could recognize. And so — I play for the people, just as much as for myself. Because, as I say, I still like to play.

  

  Ben Webster
  • People
  • Play
  • Stills

• The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Time
  • Practice
  • Study

• I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Song

• I'd like to know that your love Is love I can be sure of, So tell me now and I won't ask again, Will you still love me tomorrow?

  

  Carole King
  • Life
  • Stills
  • Tomorrow

• My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Purpose
  • Should
  • Able

• If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Photography
  • Stills
  • Ifs

• I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.

  

  Andre Kertesz
  • Interesting
  • Stills

• The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • God
  • Spiritual
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• Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Peace
  • Justice
  • Democracy

• If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I wouldn't feel that it's my place to forbid it.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Women
  • Church
  • Feels

• Jesus has given you the right to use His name. That name can break the power of disease, the power of the adversary. That name can stop disease and failure from reigning over you. There is no disease that has ever come to man which this name cannot destroy.

  

  E. W. Kenyon
  • Men
  • Power
  • Stop

• I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Knows
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• The purpose of a spirit filled life is to demonstrate the supernatural power of our living God so that the unsaved multitudes will abandon their dead gods to call upon the name of The Lord and be delivered.

  

  T. L. Osborn
  • Life
  • God
  • Power

• If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • People
  • Character
  • History

• I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Mind
  • Cat
  • Names

• One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Remember

• I want no blood from you--not until we're both sweaty and naked and you're screaming my name.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Blood
  • Names
  • Naked

• Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.

  

  William Golding
  • Stories
  • Facts
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• All theorems have three names: a French name, a German name, and a Russian name, each nationality having claimed to discover it first. Once in a while there's an English name, too, but it's always Newton.

  

  Arthur Mattuck
  • Names
  • Discover
  • Theorems

• That was the thing: Once, the difference between light and dark had been basic. One was good, one bad. Suddenly, though, things weren’t so clear. The dark was still a mystery, something hidden, something to be scared of, but I’d come to fear the light, too. It was where everything was revealed, or seemed to be. Eyes closed, I saw only the blackness, reminding me of this one thing, the most deep of my secrets; eyes open, there was only the world that didn’t know it, bright, inescapable, and somehow, still there.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Dark
  • Eye

• That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
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