William Shakespeare Quotes

This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf...Cupid.

William Shakespeare

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• People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Long
  • Remember

• I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Seriously
  • Jingle

• Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Job

• Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Kids
  • Career
  • Wife

• We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • World
  • Die
  • Alone

• Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Up
  • World
  • Perfect

• If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Worry

• Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Taken

• My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Job
  • Bad
  • Speak

• I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Better

• There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Idea
  • Place
  • Heroic

• I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • Work
  • Passion

• I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

  

  Imelda May
  • Men
  • Feminist
  • Means

• There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • Long
  • Money

• Setzen wir Deutschland, so zu sagen, in den Sattel! Reiten wird es schon können.

  

  Otto von Bismarck

• That’s because you can’t hold something in your mind but a little while, said Jem. It’s different with grown folks, we-

  

  Harper Lee
  • Different
  • Mind

• Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Vacation

• I grew up 45 minutes outside of Chicago.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Chicago
  • Minutes
  • Grew

• It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw, because there's going to be more to play with - more conflict, internally or in and around them - but it's probably the thing of finding the positive in there.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • Interesting
  • Positive

• His old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Adventure
  • Mists
  • Old Life

• All officers of the Intelligence Community, and especially its most senior officer, must conduct themselves in a manner that earns and retains the public trust. The American people are uncomfortable with government activities that do not take place in the open, subject to public scrutiny and review.

  

  Dennis C. Blair
  • People
  • American
  • Community

• This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf...Cupid.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Boys
  • Senior
  • Dwarves