Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes

Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.

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• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Trying
  • American
  • Find

• Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Up
  • May
  • Help

• I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Age
  • Acting
  • Used

• All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Morning
  • Three
  • Ship

• I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Style
  • Clothes
  • Dress

• The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • God
  • Understand
  • Discourse

• When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Everything
  • Piano
  • Chopin

• I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Growing
  • Comedy
  • Obsessed

• I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Done
  • Want
  • Career

• If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed . . .

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Violence
  • Dumb

• The world could change in a second,so I find the sunshine beckons me,to open up the gate and dream.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Up
  • World
  • Dream

• This is George Bush’s accountability moment.

  

  Cindy Sheehan
  • Accountability

• Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Logic

• It's one thing to talk about the redistribution of wealth. It's quite another thing to talk about the redistribution of power. That's more what interests me.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Power

• One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.

  

  Virender Sehwag
  • Should
  • Achieve

• My uncle used to sit me on his lap and play "ventriloquist", only I wasn't wearing pants.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Play
  • Used
  • Pants

• Our society is driven today by so much ethnic discord. We have Black Lives Matter, which I praise and celebrate. We have the demagogues stereotyping Muslims and resurrecting racist stereotypes they used to visit on us. The larger goal is to show that we are all the same, we all come from Africa, and we all have the same larger family tree. It's about the fundamental unity of the human community.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Today
  • Black
  • Community

• More than my other films, Uncle Boonmee is very much about cinema, that's also why it's personal. If you care to look, each reel of the film has a different style - acting style, lighting style, or cinematic references - but most of them reflect movies. I think that when you make a film about recollection and death, you have to consider that cinema is also dying - at least this kind of old cinema that nobody makes anymore.

  

  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Death
  • Cinema
  • Recollection

• Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.

  

  Tobias Smollett
  • Ignorance
  • Ridiculous
  • Folly