William Shakespeare Quotes

Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

William Shakespeare

• Love
• Moderately
• Tardy

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• I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Doing

• The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Blood
  • Suicide
  • Revenge

• I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Know

• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Book

• A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Time
  • Poetry
  • Place

• You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Done
  • Wonder
  • Company

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• I'm down for adventure and up for anything.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Up
  • Adventure
  • Down

• I'm very involved in the writing on every level.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Writing
  • Very
  • Involved

• You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Smile

• I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Day
  • Same

• There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Book
  • Beginning
  • Missing

• Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Sense
  • Cities
  • Big

• I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Important
  • Strategy
  • Link

• I'd love to do a film with Michael Fassbender. He's one of my heroes. I think he's absolutely amazing and I would love to do a project with him.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Amazing
  • Film
  • Heroes

• In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Bad
  • Responsibility
  • Admit

• I mean, I think having a great family like I do. You know, I tend to want to give it all I have when I'm at the golf course, and then when I leave I don't want to think about golf at all. And I just remind myself almost daily that golf's just my job, it's not who I am.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Great
  • Family
  • Job

• HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• If I'm not mistaken, that relationship of Barack Obama with Mr.Bill Ayers on this board continued after 9/11 and after his reported comments, which were deeply hurtful to people in New York and, I would hope, to every American, because they were published on 9/11, and he said that he was just sorry they hadn't done more.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Relationship
  • Barack Obama
  • 9/11

• I know all the problems of the schools. They're rigid, they're bureaucratic, they've got a lot of problems. But it's such an important institution, and holds such promise.

  

  Edward Zigler
  • Problems
  • Promise
  • Schools

• The best gift you can give, besides your unconditional love, is to be strong for them when they are present and stronger for yourself when they are not!

  

  David H. Cooke
  • Love
  • Strong
  • Stronger

• Escape from my self-berating, never-good-enough

  

  Colleen Saidman
  • Escape
  • Self-Berating

• Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Moderately
  • Tardy