William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
Vicky McClure
We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
Zac Brown Band
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
Barbara Walters
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
Mae West
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson
The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
Jack Kemp
I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
Gail Carson Levine
I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
Dakota Fanning
The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
Samantha Morton
I never liked you, and I always will.
Samuel Goldwyn
If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!
Olivia Colman
If I like a food, I'll eat it, even if I know it's not good for me.
Kim Kardashian
Art, rightly applied, provided humanity with the symbols, insight, and vicarious experience necessary to help one person place him- or herself in the shoes of another, and by so doing come to appreciate the commonality of human experience.
Aberjhani
You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
Robert Frost
A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list.
William Makepeace Thackeray
