William Shakespeare Quotes
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
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Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.
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It's been a concern of mine for years that the mainstream media coverage of culture and politics takes place in two nodes, Washington and New York, and yet all the voting goes on somewhere else.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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Actually, King Abdullah, under his supervision and guidance, has established a dialogue in Saudi Arabia whereby all the population, whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views.
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Being a woman is just a marvelous plus in photographing. Men like to be photographed by women, it becomes flirtatious and fun, and women feel less as if they're expected to be in a relationship.
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I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.
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He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
