William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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• Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Eye
  • Shadow

• Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Success
  • Rich
  • Tradition

• Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something to be proud of and something that I really loved and have a love for - but also music was good for other people because you put joy into the world.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• While the Forbes Council does offer some benefits and opportunities for members, the Council may want to be careful going forward to avoid the many pitfalls that befell Trump University.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • May
  • Want
  • Trump

• I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Years
  • Working
  • London

• Drama starts where logic ends.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Drama
  • Logic
  • Where

• We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

  

  Quintilian
  • Reading
  • Deep
  • Minds

• There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • People
  • Insecurity
  • Too Much

• The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Love
  • Why
  • You

• I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Kind
  • Sweet
  • Villain

• I would say I'm self-taught, but Corinne Day made me less conscious of myself. I was 15, and she'd make me take off my top, and I'd cry. After five years, you get used to it, and you're not self-conscious anymore.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Day
  • Cry
  • Conscious

• We appreciate quiet living. It's not exactly a Hollywood way of life - I couldn't stand living out in Hollywood because you can never escape from the business. All people ever do is talk about movies. At least in New York you can have some other life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• Where I grew up in the middle of Georgia, hip-hop is king, and on Friday and Saturday nights, local DJs do mixes. It's a great mix of local stuff and then some of the bigger hits and remixes of the hits, and it just has this nice flow with a dirty-South sound to everything.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Great
  • Nice

• Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Character
  • Brain
  • Feel

• I have been very pleased at the response we have got for 'SVSC.'

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Been
  • Response
  • Got

• We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can't possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You can't both be reading a newspaper and be online. Of course you can. We shouldn't be obsessed with a gun to your head, 'You either read a newspaper or die!'

  

  Harold Evans
  • Interested
  • Jazz
  • Beethoven

• I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the present, or the half century in between. And why not? I'm deeply underwhelmed by most contemporary art, literature, music, films, TV, the heinous little phones, money talk, real estate talk, all that stuff. The Internet, which at first seemed so fascinating, appears to be evolving into something even worse than TV, but we'll see.

  

  Donald Fagen Steely Dan
  • Literature
  • Stuff
  • Honest

• All the carbon copies, the stuff that the industry puts together, it's not selling if you pay attention and look at the charts. The stuff that they put together, these hits that just go out, it doesn't sell. It doesn't have a core fan base of fans that dedicatedly watch their life. It's just a song, another song, another hit song, a one-hit wonder. It doesn't sell. It doesn't last.

  

  Hakeem Seriki
  • Stuff
  • Industry
  • Charts

• So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.

  

  Moss Hart
  • Morning
  • Audience
  • Hearing

• He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Stuff
  • Ears
  • Hearing