William Shakespeare Quotes

Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat.

William Shakespeare

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• I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.

  

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• One of my closest friends was a half-black, half-Jewish girl. Another good friend had a shaved head... but I was also friends with jocks. I was a 'floater,' I guess you could say.

  

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• I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.

  

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• I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.

  

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• Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.

  

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• I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.

  

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• When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

  

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• What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'

  

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• Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

  

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• Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

  

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• I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.

  

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• One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.

  

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• To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.

  

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• The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

  

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• I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

  

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• I think the big thing is you really have one chance to do this... to play hockey for a living, you have one chance at your career, and you have to take full advantage of it.

  

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• You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.

  

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• Lei Feng is reported to have died in a freak accident in 1962 - struck by a falling telephone pole.

  

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• Prayer is as necessary as the air, as the blood in our bodies, as anything to keep us alive-to keep us alive to the grace of God.

  

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• Indian films have this obsession with hygienic clean spaces, even though the country's not so clean. They're either shot in the studios or shot in London, in America, in Switzerland - clean places. Everywhere except India.

  

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• The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on the climactic revelation in the son, but this in self-conscious fulfillment of the promises and covenants that were already made to God's chosen people in Old Testament times.

  

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• It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.

  

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• Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Air
  • Meat
  • Chameleon