Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes

To the valiant actions speak alone.

Tobias Smollett

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• Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Beauty
  • Comedians

• The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Done
  • Everything

• I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Live
  • True
  • Feeling

• I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Friendships

• Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Power
  • Attention
  • Influence

• A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Blood
  • Taste
  • Fighter

• When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Kids
  • Know
  • Pictures

• If anyone can put together a plan that is demonstrably better than the improvements we've made to our health care system and that covers as many people at less cost, I will publicly support it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Together
  • Support

• Oh, you'll not be any poorer if you smile along your way,And your lot will not be harder for the kindly things you say.Don't imagine you are wasting time for others that you spend:You can rise to wealth and glory and still pause to be a friend.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Time
  • Friend
  • Smile

• The town’s lack of special quirks was almost a peculiarity in itself.

  

  Jack Vance

• I have sometimes thought that all professional lectures on rationality should be delivered while wearing a clown suit, to prevent the audience from confusing seriousness with solemnity.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Professional

• We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.

  

  Benito Mussolini

• Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

  

  Conrad Aiken

• My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • She
  • Amazing
  • Mom

• I do think there was an age of television back in the '90s that was a little bit more wholesome.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • Age

• My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.

  

  Kiana Tom
  • Happy
  • Goals
  • Healthy

• When you have a lot of opportunities, which I am blessed to have had in terms of my work, you get into the habit of not paying attention to certain specifics. And as we get busy, anything we do is the same thing.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Blessed

• When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.

• In the 1960s, reaching for the moon meant just that. It was a metaphor for attempting the impossible, and we attempted it, and we did it. And it inspired millions of people in every way. The number of science graduates in this country doubled in the 1960s at every level - high school, college, Ph.D.

  

  Robert Zubrin
  • Inspired
  • Metaphor
  • Graduates

• It was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I got to see firsthand the sacrifices that Israelis make in the name of security because of the dangerous state of affairs there. I will always be a strong supporter of Israel.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Life
  • Strong

• I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.

  

  Matthew Lesko
  • Society

• Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Eggs

• To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making.’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love... My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.

  

  Jean Renoir
  • Art
  • Question
  • Cinema

• To the valiant actions speak alone.

  

  Tobias Smollett