William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

The play is done; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's bell A moment yet the actor stops And looks around to say farewell.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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• I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Life
  • Technology
  • Myself

• WWE was an opportunity to wrestle in front of thousands - in 2013, I did 227 matches, and almost all of them were in front of more than three or four thousand people, with a high of 70,000 plus. It was an incredible experience to be part of that.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Experience
  • High

• The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Work
  • Humanity
  • More

• If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Long
  • Country

• Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • People
  • Life
  • Science

• Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Leader
  • Evidence
  • Conspiracy

• I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Song
  • Kind

• I do think one should have clean feet.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Think
  • Feet
  • Clean

• Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Today
  • Health
  • Problem

• It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Love
  • Job

• Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.

  

  Hall Caine
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Church

• I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Want
  • Always
  • Wisdom

• The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Fashion
  • Choices
  • Biggest

• There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Garden

• I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Work
  • Stop

• Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • Men
  • Women
  • Society

• The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • World
  • Family
  • Power

• My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Mother

• Just reskinning games with our intellectual property is not an appealing prospect for opportunity. That isn't something that creates long-term value for shareholders.

  

  Bobby Kotick
  • Long
  • Opportunity
  • Value

• I'm an essayist. And this is a genre that has existed for a few thousand years. Ever heard of Cicero? So these rules that I'm working under are not mine but rather were established by writers who recognized the difference between the hard research of journalism and the kind of inquiry of mind that characterizes the essay.

  

  John D'Agata
  • Mind

• The movies that I did in the '80s were either good or bad, but I never was oppressed with any feeling - I mean, I thought it was ridiculous to play high school or college students when I was 30. But at the same time, that was really done then.

  

  Curtis Armstrong
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.

  

  Charles Sumner
  • Life
  • Done
  • Evil

• The play is done; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's bell A moment yet the actor stops And looks around to say farewell.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Done
  • Fall
  • Moments