William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.
Quotes to Explore
-
What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
-
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
-
Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.
-
I can't take the theater side out of myself.
-
Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
-
Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
-
My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
-
Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
-
I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
-
I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
-
I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
-
When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
-
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
-
I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
-
People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
-
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
-
I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.
-
R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
-
I was the principal negotiator for the Department of Defense, when I was secretary of the Navy, on the issue of Toshiba technology concerns with American submarines.
-
Songs are usually unfit for whistling - indeed, whistling (except to the person doing it) is unbearable.
-
Roman’s a little gay boy who lives in me. And every time I talk he sort of just appears and I tell him, ‘Roman, you know, stop it, you’ve gone mad, I tell you, mad.’ He’s an outlet to say what I need to say but sometimes don’t want to.
-
A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.
-
I bring a record home, and it connects with me like nothing else. In my ideal situation, somebody will do that with my record.
-
It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.
