William Shakespeare Quotes

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

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• I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Good
  • You
  • Dog

• As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Home
  • Society
  • Girl

• Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Wonder

• If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • America
  • Immigration
  • Nation

• In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Road
  • First
  • River

• The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Progress
  • Human
  • Race

• Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Country
  • Identity
  • Diversity

• In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Live
  • You
  • Crying

• The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Morning

• When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • School
  • Home
  • House

• We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • You
  • Choices
  • Need

• Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Think
  • Brain
  • Anger

• I'm very unpopular for my dislike of this food, but I've never liked avocado. Everyone gives me so much flack for it because they tell me how healthy it is for me, how delicious it is. I don't like it, but it's not for lack of trying. I tried to like it, and it's just not my thing.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Food
  • Healthy
  • Dislike

• I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Up
  • Book
  • Hope

• I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Business
  • Small
  • Myself

• In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.

  

  Patanjali
  • Deep
  • Meditation

• The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.

  

  Charles Koch
  • Great
  • Country
  • Money

• Radio 4 Extra is the network which offers the broadcasting version of eternal life.

  

  David Hepworth
  • Life

• I want to date someone who likes who I am as a person and not what I do for a living.

  

  Josh Henderson
  • Living
  • Who I Am
  • I Do

• Crime takes place in every country. But it becomes abuse when the state is unwilling and unable to protect the life and honour of its citizens.

  

  Asma Jahangir
  • Life
  • Country
  • Abuse

• The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Country
  • Death
  • Traveler