William Shakespeare Quotes

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.

William Shakespeare

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• A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • You
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  • Painting

• I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Today
  • Best
  • Awesome

• Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Success
  • Chance
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• In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Women
  • Family
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• We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Mind
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• Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Child

• Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Bi-coastal

• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • May
  • Style
  • Failure

• This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Environmental

• Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Movies

• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Reason
  • Feelings
  • Mankind

• You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • People
  • Work
  • Political

• No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Good
  • Actor
  • Say

• I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Runner
  • Weekends

• Death is the beginning of something.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Death
  • Beginning
  • Something

• Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • American
  • Doubt
  • Conversation

• Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • People
  • Work
  • Game

• I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back. When you don't enjoy it, that's the time to pack it in.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Time
  • Long
  • Stop

• I need to rein myself in sometimes.

  

  Kevin Pietersen

• But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which the Lord has bestowed upon us, for His glory and our good, shall not be preposterously abused, nay, shall not be perverted to our destruction.

  

  John Calvin
  • Good
  • God
  • Painting

• If you're doing a column, you kind of have to. Like in the back of Sports Illustrated, Rick Reilly has to find something to be mad about. It's not really the way I approach things.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Sports
  • Mad

• John is one of the top parks and recreation directors I've seen. He has a great feel for the needs of the community, and that's reflected in the facilities.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Top
  • Reactions
  • Parks

• ..the wind of 'art brut' blows on writing as well as on other avenues of artistic creation.

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Wind

• I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Crazy
  • Wind
  • Mad