William Shakespeare Quotes

Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding they brav'ry in their rotten smoke?

William Shakespeare

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• I write in a small office at home.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Small
  • Office

• For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Character
  • Thing
  • Having

• I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Think
  • Know

• I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Disrespect

• You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Help
  • Feeling
  • Best

• For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

  

  Karen O
  • Space
  • Rest
  • California

• I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.

  

  Gallant
  • Something
  • Loved
  • Very

• I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Work
  • Giving

• When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Picture

• I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.

  

  Washed Out
  • Interesting
  • Child
  • Internet

• I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Always
  • Things
  • Still

• I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Me
  • Skill

• The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Today
  • Best
  • inspirational

• I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Think
  • Person
  • Boring

• The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • House
  • You

• The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.

  

  Jack Charlton
  • Job
  • Something
  • Irish

• I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Awareness

• I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Life
  • Done
  • Think

• Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in individual geniuses. But for all that, would he experience the phenomena of inspiration? His human documentation gathered from inspired poets could hardly be related, except from the exterior, in an ideal of objective observations. Comparison of inspired poets would soon make us lose sight of inspiration.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Experience
  • Study
  • Inspiration

• Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Way
  • Conflict
  • Benefits

• Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding they brav'ry in their rotten smoke?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Way
  • Promise
  • Clouds