William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling, when a day of our life comes and we say, 'To-morrow, success or failure won't matter much; and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil.'William Makepeace Thackeray
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
e. e. cummings -
It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
Oren Peli -
To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
Yaya Toure -
There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.
Adam Lambert -
Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
Katarina Witt -
I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
Ted Sarandos
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I've done 20 takes of a Vine before it goes out.
Maisie Williams -
In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
Olivia Wilde -
Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.
Zach Galligan -
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
Barry Diller -
I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
Mads Mikkelsen -
I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
Gavin Rossdale Bush
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
Kate Bush -
In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.
Hans Frank -
The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?
Pamela Anderson -
I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.
Natascha McElhone -
Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.
Venus Williams
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It's important sometimes to have pictures that are not as retouched and show more of the real skin.
Doutzen Kroes -
What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.
William Shakespeare -
I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely.
Wim Wenders -
It is a great night. It is the end of Socialism.
Margaret Thatcher -
Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.
Virginia Woolf -
Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling, when a day of our life comes and we say, 'To-morrow, success or failure won't matter much; and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil.'
William Makepeace Thackeray