William Morris Hunt Quotes

Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.

William Morris Hunt

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• I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Myself
  • Name
  • Dirty

• Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Words
  • Opportunity
  • Equality

• We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Better
  • Performance
  • Sales

• I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Work
  • Feels
  • Impression

• All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Education
  • Afraid

• I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Great
  • Want
  • Just

• Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Rome
  • Industrial

• Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'

  

  Barry Took
  • Think
  • Better
  • Course

• Focus on remedies, not faults.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Focus
  • Faults
  • Remedies

• Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Always
  • Better

• We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Friends
  • Young
  • Face

• As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Help
  • Think
  • Chance

• Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • People
  • Age
  • Night

• The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • Problem
  • Christian

• Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Live
  • Reflection

• I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • World
  • City
  • New York

• Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.

  

  Vic Tayback
  • Years
  • Ego
  • Sit

• I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Simple

• I love that there are so many 'Veronica Mars' fans. I was not a regular on the show. I was lucky enough to just come on. I loved the character. But, I never really realized the rabid fans that it had. I just didn't know.

  

  Ken Marino
  • Character

• Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

  

  Lois Lowry
  • Writing

• Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Government
  • Health emergencies

• Is all the world jails and churches?

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • World

• When people start rejecting the fundamental understanding of the world that scientific process brings you, well, that's bad in my opinion.

  

  Bill Nye
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • World
  • Long
  • Humanity