William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray

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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

Aaron Sorkin
- Thinking
- Parents
- Sound
It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.

Beau Willimon
- People
- Power
- Game
There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

Paloma Faith
- Nothing
- Wrong
- Eyebrow
No country should waste wireless spectrum. Especially not India, where the cellphone has become the personal computer.

Ram Shriram
- Country
- Where
- Spectrum
Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.

Cameron Boyce
- People
- Up
- Great
The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.

Dale T. Mortensen
- Information
- Search
- New