Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes

Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

Tobias Smollett

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• I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Drama
  • Artists
  • Dramatic

• I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.

  

  Sally Watson
  • School
  • History
  • Teach

• What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Power
  • Bad

• I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Myself
  • New

• Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• I don't see myself as a diva at all.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Myself
  • See
  • Diva

• I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Life
  • Time
  • House

• I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Hate
  • Always
  • Again

• Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Up
  • Fall
  • See

• Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Country
  • Market
  • Marine

• If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Kids
  • Write
  • Down

• Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Lies
  • Possible

• I've always loved film more than theater.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Always
  • Film
  • Loved

• My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Hope
  • Daughter
  • Idea

• When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Thinking
  • Reaction
  • Fragrance

• I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know?

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Know
  • Care
  • Now And Then

• Feminism is universal. You can't just fight for one type of freedom or one type of female power. You know what? Muslim women want to cover up, and we have to fight for our right to do that, too.

  

  Yuna
  • Up
  • Women
  • Power

• On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • End
  • Back
  • Bus

• If someone doubts our right to exist - be it on the hills of Umm al-Fahem or in Munich's beer halls, in Gaza's crowded streets or in the thick woods of Babi Yar - it's their problem. Proud states do not break into wails and crawl under the carpet when they discover someone doesn't love them.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Problem
  • Proud
  • Right

• At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Important
  • Day
  • End

• I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Wife
  • Safe
  • Germany

• I took out a whole fireplace and put in broken glass and installed a burner underneath, so it looks like fire on ice. I did that in my bedroom suite. I'm pretty handy.

  

  Cory Monteith
  • Pretty
  • Fire
  • Broken

• The thing about 'Harry Potter' is it's great fun because of the people - I was usually with Julie Walters and Mark Williams, Brendan Gleeson, Robbie Coltrane, and the kids. Wonderful, funny, amazing people. If you're going to hang around on a set bored, you might as well do it with Julie Walters.

  

  David Thewlis
  • People
  • Great
  • Kids

• Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

  

  Tobias Smollett
  • Writing
  • Loser