William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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• I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Family
  • Business
  • Culture

• Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Earth

• Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Pain
  • Brain
  • Feel

• The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Past
  • Like
  • Sea

• One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Up
  • Work
  • Know

• The historian is a prophet looking backward.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Looking
  • Prophet
  • Backward

• Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • World
  • America
  • Culture

• 'When Marnie Was There' was the first animated film I've ever done.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Done
  • Film
  • First

• There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Nature
  • Rules
  • Laws

• I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • Funny
  • Humor

• My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Why
  • Day
  • Fly

• It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • You
  • Simple
  • Faithful

• My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Live
  • Me
  • Medical

• I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Think
  • Better
  • Now

• Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Movie
  • Growing
  • Video

• Ch. 9 (pp. 298-9)

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

  

  Vernor Vinge

• It is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Children

• Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.

  

  Juan Williams
  • Right
  • Voting
  • Constitutional

• I would prefer to battle the 'I'm special' feeling not by the thought, 'I'm no more special than anyone else,' by by the feeling, 'Everyone is as special as me.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Special

• Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Die

• I had a Neighborhood Crime Watch sign in my dorm wall in college. People would come in and laugh at it. 'Where did you get it?' 'I took it. How good is their Neighborhood Crime Watch if they can't even watch their sign?'

  

  Carrot Top
  • College
  • Wall
  • Laughing

• Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Laughter
  • Laughing
  • Blank