William Shakespeare Quotes

O gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience.

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• I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • Broken
  • Down

• People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Me
  • Thought

• I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Love
  • Think
  • Awesome

• You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Free
  • You
  • Artist

• A teacher should have a creative mind.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Mind
  • Teacher
  • Creative

• No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Strong
  • Successful

• In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • American
  • Man

• Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Planning
  • Little
  • Fish

• My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.

  

  K. Flay
  • Weird
  • Perspective
  • My Own

• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• The difference between the Bush I war against Iraq and the Bush II war against Iraq is that in the first one, we appealed to the sentiments and interests of the different groupings in the region and had them with us. In the second one, we did it on our own, on the basis of false premises, with extremely brutality and lack of political skill.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Different
  • War
  • Political

• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Life
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Pretty
  • Song
  • Better

• I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Good
  • Someone
  • Lyric

• My sister is my sister regardless - has always been and always will be and has no choice about it. This is a love quite distinct from that of a lover, with whom we fall in love, in part, because they are free and have a choice.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Love
  • Free
  • For Her

• I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Good
  • Different
  • Family

• Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona – his struggles as a human being – that was interesting to me.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Art
  • Knowing
  • Modern

• You know me, I'm not that kind of person that cares to unveil all of my personal things to the world because frankly, in terms of my soccer, it doesn't matter.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Me
  • Soccer

• One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved.

  

  Bill Nelson
  • World
  • Great
  • Truth

• I'm from Miami, I love it when we're out in the heat. When it's cold, I'm like, 'I'm never acting again,' because it's too freezing.

  

  Majandra Delfino
  • Like
  • Never
  • Cold

• A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Believe
  • Father
  • Son

• I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.

  

  Ella Baker
  • People
  • Leadership
  • Leader

• O gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Son
  • Patience
  • Heat