William Shakespeare Quotes

Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage?

William Shakespeare

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• Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Art
  • Science
  • Light

• Politics is the art of the next best.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Art
  • Best
  • Politics

• I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Art
  • Artists
  • Voices

• If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Energy
  • Faith
  • Desire

• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Faith

• I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Art
  • Business

• It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Art
  • Control

• Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Music
  • Art
  • Fashion

• They're not poodles, they're art.

  

  Rachael Leigh
  • Art

• Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

  

  Kanye West
  • Music
  • Art
  • Opportunity

• You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
  • Live
  • Art

• No entrepreneur ever publicly admits to bribing, but few dare to openly claim they don't, either.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Entrepreneur
  • Dare
  • Ever

• The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

  

  Felix de Weldon
  • Art
  • Expression
  • Youth

• Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Alone
  • Waiting

• Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Together
  • Future
  • Faith

• The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Question
  • Attitude

• I never had a desire to be famous... I was fat. I didn't know any fat famous actresses... You know, once a fat kid, always a fat kid. Because you always think that you just look a little bit wrong or a little bit different from everyone else. And I still sort of have that.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Different
  • Know
  • Desire

• It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Black
  • You
  • Poor

• From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.

  

  Sade Adu
  • People
  • Different
  • Art

• I think people are really picky about English accents. When a Brit comes over here and kind of does an OK American accent, everyone's like, 'You were great! Fantastic!' But in England, even if you were doing a pretty good accent, they're like, 'But where are you from?' 'London.' 'What part of London?' Accents are really precious over there.

  

  Lee Pace
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Basically, what we've done is, every year we take half the money and allow people who've helped us in the industry to give it away. One year, the ladies who put the pretzel bags in the boxes got to give it away.

  

  Nell Newman
  • People
  • Money
  • Done

• Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Dreams
  • Achieve
  • Artists

• The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

  

  Derrick Jensen
  • World
  • Experience

• Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Desire
  • Waiting