William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a moment, after which all was over. I shall never forget the comic look of despair he cast upon the other five over-occupied shells. I asked him how he felt. 'Profoundly grateful,' he said, 'as if I had swallowed a small baby.'

William Makepeace Thackeray

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• At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.

  

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• I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.

  

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• Every time you get something, give something away.

  

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• I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.

  

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• I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

  

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• I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

  

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• If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

  

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• No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.

  

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• You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.

  

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• You know you've been around a long time when your stuntman says, 'Yeah, my grandfather doubled you.'

  

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• If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

  

  Abu Bakr
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• It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
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• My favorite ski slope is the kind that winds up at the cafeteria. My children, though, usually insist that I get out and take on a few expert runs, in a game called 'Let's See if We Can Get Our Inheritance Early.'

  

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• I don't like writing with real people in mind.

  

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• I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.

  

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• The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

  

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• The cinematic universe will not worry about 'Legion.' They will not worry about these TV worlds at all.

  

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• My secret is that I have never thought there is a secret to anything in life. Passion. Love. Drive. Work. Work. Work. Dull but true.

  

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• Houses of Congress have . . . requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God.

  

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• Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we're all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I'm really grateful for it, I don't believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?

  

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• He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a moment, after which all was over. I shall never forget the comic look of despair he cast upon the other five over-occupied shells. I asked him how he felt. 'Profoundly grateful,' he said, 'as if I had swallowed a small baby.'

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Baby
  • Grace
  • Grateful