William Shakespeare Quotes

There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.

William Shakespeare

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• The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Work
  • Economics

• I think the American people deserve to have the issues debated, regardless of which side they're on, so that they are fully aware of what their representatives and senators are voting for and voting against.

  

  Dan Coats
  • People
  • American
  • Voting

• I love red or deep purple lips for events.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Love
  • Deep
  • Red

• I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Dream
  • Like
  • Would

• Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Why
  • Best
  • Ideas

• Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Friend
  • Hand
  • Hurt

• For me, it's easier to play with my right foot. It's simple. If I go right, I see Diego and have different solutions: I go alone or pass to Diego, or the midfield can join in. If I go the other way, the cross with my left foot is not good.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Different
  • Alone

• My daughter's met Hillary Clinton, so she's got a strong bias. But she, of course, parrots me and goes, 'Oh, Donald Trump, I don't like him!' I'm like, 'That's good!'

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Good
  • She
  • Strong

• Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling – I can so well remember it. There was always something more – behind and beyond everything – to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.

  

  Kate Greenaway
  • Remember
  • Beautiful
  • Feeling

• The publishing industry stopped having new ideas out of respect for the untimely death of Ernest Hemingway in 1961 and has been doing everything the same way ever since.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Death
  • Respect
  • Ideas

• I ran for office originally as part of this Tea Party Movement because we were upset with Republicans who've doubled the debt. We were upset with Republicans that bailed out the banks.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Party
  • Tea
  • Upset

• For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have in there, and how you tie that all up into a two hour movie is not the easiest job.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Up
  • Job
  • Book

• You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Business

• Part of me wants to stay involved in wrestling, because I love it. But the thing I loved most about it was the wrestling part of it. I didn't get into it to be famous or to be a TV star: I got into it because I loved the act of wrestling.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Famous
  • Loved
  • Part

• Les gens qui n'eurent point de faiblesses sont terribles; on n'a point de prise sur eux.

  

  Anatole France

• To me, the machinima artform has essentially evolved now into the Let's Play streaming world. That's what it is: it's people performing and creating art using video games. It's just more personality-driven rather than story-driven these days.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• I didn't start making music in order to be famous.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Music
  • Famous

• Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

  

  Andrew Cohen
  • Up
  • Live
  • Mind

• I'm a visual thinker. With almost all of my writing, I start with something that's visual: either the way someone says something that is visual or an actual visual description of a scene and color.

  

  Gerald Vizenor
  • Writing
  • Scene
  • Thinker

• We were filming in Greenland, and I treated my crew. It's 24 hours of pretty bright daylight there right now, and I always try to do something nice for my crew every trip or in every other city. So I greeted them with a midnight cruise, but it looked like two in the afternoon.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Trying
  • Pretty
  • City

• Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.

  

  Steve Martin
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• Guaranteed, full stop, nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department, because nobody is above the law.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Law
  • Stop
  • Justice

• There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Hours
  • Bed
  • Delight