William Shakespeare Quotes

it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

William Shakespeare

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• I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • English

• My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Good
  • Song
  • Enough

• I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Up
  • May
  • Day

• I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • God
  • True

• Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing
  • Ride

• It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Thought
  • Personality
  • Voice

• I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Real
  • Wish
  • Effort

• This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Earth
  • Hot

• I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Answer
  • Take
  • Fighter

• It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Believe
  • Children
  • American

• Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Food
  • Yourself
  • Away

• I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Up
  • Control
  • Confidence

• Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Right
  • Champion
  • Olympic

• Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Spring
  • New York
  • Down

• I read so many things because a colleague or a friend will post something, and I'll be able to learn a tremendous amount only because they drew attention to it. So I try to do that for others, and that's the great thing about social media. It's not always a narcissistic cesspool or waste of time.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Time
  • Great
  • Attention

• People sometimes think I'm sort of all-knowing.

  

  Larry King
  • People
  • Think
  • Sometimes

• Well Ice H20 is my company that I plan to take to the next level with new artists, books, movies and so forth. It's more like a multimedia brand that I want to take to the next level and put some talented people on.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Brand
  • Ice

• Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Grandmother

• I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Think
  • For Her

• I live every day, day to day. I will go wherever life takes me. I'm not questioning it.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Life
  • Live
  • Day

• I like doing other things. I like getting high, hanging out with my kids. I like drinking. I have so many demons.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Kids
  • Things
  • Drinking

• it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Desire
  • Drinking
  • Alcohol