William Shakespeare Quotes

Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom!

William Shakespeare

• Blossom

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Different
  • Culture
  • English

• By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.

  

  Adam Dell
  • Live
  • High
  • Society

• Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Man
  • Question

• I am opposed to vacations and leisure. I try to make every day a work day. Even if there's nothing on my schedule, I will try do at least one task that is work-related.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Work

• I like to feel that something's alive in acting, like something's really going on.

  

  Jason Dohring

• The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at.

  

  Tyler Cowen
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• I'm a card-carrying nerd, a gamer, and sci-fi geek.

  

  Marcus Sakey
  • Nerd

• Did I grow up thinking I'd ever be paged at the Beverly Hills Hotel? Did I ever think I'd make so much money writing ads? No.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• So many people, you know, they're just worried about, you can't say something bad about Obama, not because you actually have a strong stance against his platform, but because that makes you a racist.

  

  Donald Trump, Jr.
  • People
  • Bad
  • Strong

• You're not going to put up good numbers every year.

  

  Asdrubal Cabrera
  • Up
  • Good

• The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing.

  

  Charles Munch
  • Light
  • Miracle

• I am not a 'culture critic' because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Life
  • World
  • Why

• I remember having meetings with Republican senators who initially had been trying to engage [Obamacare] but saw that the politics of 'no' were growing inside the Republican Party.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Growing

• Made a sketch later on the cabin verandah, but it was impossible to keep up with the changes. Oh the difficulties of mountain art for too little genius.

  

  J. E. H. MacDonald
  • Up
  • Art
  • Mountain

• Though well to decorate the blossom, it is far better to prepare for the harvest.

  

  Emma Willard
  • Prepare
  • Blossom
  • Harvest

• I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.

  

  James Boswell
  • Mankind
  • Blossom
  • Distinguished

• There were times in my life when I had one thing to do all day, but I still couldn’t get to it. “I gotta go to the post office, but I’d probably have to put on pants. And they’re only open till five. Looks like I’m going to have to do that next week.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Funny
  • Humor
  • Week

• We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Live
  • Generation
  • Labor

• The most-honored ancestors of your matriarch besmirched the season of the orange blossom.

  

  Nick Bakay
  • Honored
  • Ancestor
  • Blossom

• When I became governor, I vowed to restore the public's trust.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Trust
  • Public
  • Restore

• It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.

  

  Aristotle
  • Bad
  • Man
  • Honor

• Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Relationship

• The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Political
  • Farewell
  • Parties

• Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Blossom