William Shakespeare Quotes

For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.

William Shakespeare

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• In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Small
  • Listening
  • Theatre

• Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Very
  • Oklahoma

• Basically, as soon as I saw that there was a role available on '24,' I jumped at it, and then when I sat down and talked to them, it seemed to get more interesting and more fun.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Fun
  • Interesting
  • Down

• I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I never really trained in.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Know
  • Never

• Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Lies

• Headliners, no matter the genre, usually are a person or band who has an ethos.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Band

• My campaign to become leader of the ANC was pivoted on two things: Renewing the ANC and taking back to the values the were espoused and subscribed to by Nelson Mandela, Oliver Thambo, and many other leaders.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa

• I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.

  

  Blythe Danner
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I don't know what 'genius' even means. It's just a matter of keeping your eye on the ball.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham

• Whatever one wants to say about the conduct of the Iraq War, going to war to remove Saddam Hussein in 2003 was a necessary act. It should and could have been done earlier, had not the Clinton White House, which understood the need, not wasted the opportunity through timidity and bluster.

  

  Arthur L. Herman
  • Done
  • War
  • House

• When I was first elected to parliament 18 years ago, one of the many things that struck me and that I still feel now is how the Labour Party, the party of collective action, can, at MP level and above, behave in such an individualistic way.

  

  Bob Ainsworth
  • Action
  • Party

• Some would suggest that there has been a dramatic change in our perception of the world and ourselves within the world. Others have observed that there has been an almost complete about-face in a relatively short span of time.

  

  Alex Campbell
  • Time
  • World
  • Perception

• I try as hard as I can to push myself. I try to create as much as I can. I try to grow on a daily basis.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • Daily

• I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.

  

  Augusten Burroughs
  • Father
  • Relationship
  • Holiday

• Paris Singer had vastly more to do with shaping my character than Mother had; although Mother made innumerable sacrifices for me, and Paris Singer made none. I wanted to be like him.

  

  Preston Sturges
  • Character
  • Mother
  • Paris

• To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.

  

  Donald Cram

• Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you.

  

  Drew Gilpin Faust
  • Up
  • War
  • Dog

• Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That's what I'm after.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • People
  • Why

• Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Art
  • Simple
  • Imagination

• I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Music
  • Women
  • Relationship

• Portland has influenced me in that it is very much where I feel most "at home" in the world. I grew up there. My family is there, my closest friends are there; my favorite bookstore, record store and coffee joint are there. Portland changed a lot during the eight years I lived in Bellingham but, every time I went back, it always felt like home.

  

  Kasey Anderson
  • World
  • Coffee
  • Changed

• Don't feel bad, Angela," Kami said. "You know guys, they only want one thing. Repartee. I can't count how many times men have admired my well-turned phrases.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Men
  • Guy
  • Feels

• Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Bodies
  • Feed
  • Vile

• For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Phrases