Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes

There is not room to swing a cat.

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• Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Thinking
  • Marriage
  • Now

• We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • World
  • American
  • Technology

• Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Same

• I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Funny
  • Cool
  • Like

• I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Life
  • Done
  • Think

• I love pain. Love pain.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Love
  • Pain
  • I Love

• A lot of people in my family have high blood pressure. Dre told me I better start hitting the gym... so I took his advice.

  

  Warren G
  • People
  • Family
  • High

• Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Power
  • Freedom

• Knowing not to have illusions is absolutely necessary in order to have dreams.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Let the corporations do as they please - pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets - and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will of heaven.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Business
  • Environment
  • Heaven

• We declare war against socialism, not because it is socialism, but because it has opposed nationalism.... We intend to be an active minority, attract the proletariat away from the official Socialist party. But if the middle class thinks that we are going to be their lightning rods, they are mistaken.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • War
  • Party

• I have the profoundest respect for people who behave in a generous way because of religion. But I come from a country where the misuse of religion has had catastrophic consequences. One must judge people not by what faith they proclaim but by what they do.

  

  Amin Maalouf
  • People
  • Country
  • Faith

• The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.

  

  David Wilkerson
  • World
  • Women
  • Challenge

• My mother was born on February 8, 1944, in Lucknow, India. Her father, Albert, was half-Indian and half-Portuguese.

  

  Lisa Jewell
  • Mother
  • Father
  • February

• For conservatives, the issue is that for generations now, they have failed to make the case for their values. They haven't even conveyed conservative values to many of their children. And when they have, the university has often succeeded in undoing them.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • Children

• My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on a pop record, they would tell me to turn it off, so I only listen to classical.

  

  Amanda Eliasch
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Grandmother

• I don't think I'm that good a singer. I can't think of a song that I've written that I don't like the way somebody else sings it better.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Good
  • Song

• I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • Music
  • Different
  • Country

• I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.

  

  Charles Dance
  • Confidence

• Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.

  

  George Washington
  • Interest
  • Relation
  • Concern

• I'm kind of a nerd in that I get really excited about things... I love anticipating if they're going to like their rooms or not.

  

  Paige Davis
  • Rooms
  • Nerd
  • Things I Love

• There is always room for change, but you have to be open to that change.

  

  Kathryn Budig
  • Yoga
  • Rooms

• He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now seemed like no more than a trap, a maze, not even a maze, just a room that was all walls, no door.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Wall
  • Grief
  • Doors

• There is not room to swing a cat.

  

  Tobias Smollett
  • Cat
  • Rooms
  • Swings