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
  • Wrestling

• 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

• Despite the barrage of information about me that is publicly available, I live a surprisingly private and anonymous life.

  

  Hasan M. Elahi
  • Life
  • Information

• I'm concerned about what I see is the fetishization around entrepreneurship in Africa. It's almost like it's the next new liberal thing. Like, 'Don't worry that there's no power because, hey, you're going to do solar and innovate around that.'

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Power
  • Worry

• Napoleon might have understood Dwight D. Eisenhower, who fought not even a hundred and fifty years after Waterloo. But I don't think Eisenhower could even begin to wrap his mind around drone warfare, spy satellites, or any of the technology that now defines the security of our world.

  

  Claudia Gray
  • World
  • Mind
  • Technology

• And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church meets, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • House
  • Wish
  • Church

• Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Live
  • May

• 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