William Shakespeare Quotes

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.

William Shakespeare

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• Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Done
  • Night

• I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Science
  • Human
  • Monster

• I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Thing

• I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Wish
  • Speak
  • Chinese

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• I'm a dad and a husband, and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Husband

• Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Love

• Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.

  

  Zendaya
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Practice

• Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Love
  • Home
  • Fireside

• Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Writing
  • Wish
  • Struggle

• Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Rock

• Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Dwell

• Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.

  

  Damien Fahey
  • People
  • God
  • Reality

• With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Love
  • Songs
  • Prove

• We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Trust

• I just want to continue to pursue dancing. I want to focus on making it out there and showing everybody my heart and soul through dance... and do it until I can't walk anymore.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Focus

• When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Night
  • Words
  • Hand

• You can grow without destroying the things that you love.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • Love
  • You
  • Grow

• Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Grass

• As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Character
  • Water
  • Heaven

• Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

  

  Gene Fowler
  • Writing

• For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Humans

• Moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Pleasure
  • Force
  • Moral Indignation

• When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Wish
  • Dance
  • Sea