William Shakespeare Quotes

She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.

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• Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Fun
  • Better
  • Win

• The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Book

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Part
  • Taxes
  • Payment

• The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Road
  • Hell
  • Milestones

• There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Media
  • Now

• Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Arts
  • Island
  • Puerto Rico

• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Work
  • Think
  • Turn

• I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • People
  • Done
  • Happy

• Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Hope
  • You
  • Human

• I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Children
  • Love
  • Never

• My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Education

• I'm definitely more of a 'think game' kind of girl. I'll read every single dialogue and codex entry and lore entry. I really do love projecting myself and creating my character.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Character
  • Game
  • Girl

• Some day I shall be President.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Day
  • President
  • Some

• There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Different
  • Direction
  • Speed

• People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Childhood
  • Obstacles

• I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Friends
  • Yourself
  • Awesome

• I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Together
  • Myself
  • Cancer

• 'I keep hoping you’ll tell me. You’re the god, after all. If I prayed to you for guidance, and you decided to answer, what would you tell me?''I wouldn’t answer.''Because you don’t care? Or because you wouldn’t know what to say?'More silence.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • God
  • Silence

• Are human beings innately aggressive? ...The answer to it is yes. ...Only by redefining the words 'innateness' and 'aggression' to the point of uselessness might we correctly say that human aggressiveness is not innate.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Words

• Age indomitably, in the European manner. Do not finish your labours young. Be a planet, not a meteor. Honor the working day. Sit at your desk.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Life
  • Age
  • Honor

• Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

  

  Arthur J. Lamb
  • Beauty
  • Gold
  • Bird

• In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.

  

  George Eliot
  • Beginning

• She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Water
  • Gold
  • Rich