William Shakespeare Quotes

To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.

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• If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

  

  Mae West
  • Search
  • Coffee
  • Meaning

• I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Shoulder
  • Reconstruction

• I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Think
  • Decision
  • Write

• I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • World
  • Good
  • Job

• In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Work
  • Children

• When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?

  

  Harland Williams
  • Life
  • Day
  • Walking

• If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Stop
  • Singing
  • Voice

• I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Me
  • Mirror
  • Perception

• I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • You
  • Like
  • Burn

• When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • America
  • Focus

• I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Think

• Obviously I try to make the best music that I can, but after about two years of making an album, you start to worry: 'Is it going to come out all right? Is it all going to sound churned out?'

  

  Kate Bush
  • Music
  • Best
  • Worry

• I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • History
  • Give
  • Take

• We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Want
  • Way
  • Wrong

• I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to L.A., during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing 'Gossip Girl,' and I auditioned, and things came together.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Together
  • Girl
  • Gossip

• Youku Tudou has helped transform how media and entertainment-related content is distributed and marketed since our inception.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Media
  • Content
  • Transform

• Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Death
  • Man
  • Camera

• I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn't meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Dream
  • Woman
  • Intelligent

• If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all this time on this earth?

  

  Nelly
  • Time
  • Earth
  • inspirational

• It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Men
  • Free
  • Born

• Historically, in India, the strange fact was that the equity owner was not taking as much hit as the lender. Therefore, if we restore the first principle of economics, that first the equity owner needs to take the hit and then the lender, we will get a good solution.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Good
  • Solution
  • Economics

• To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Born
  • Hours
  • Merry