William Shakespeare Quotes

But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day.

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• The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Wise
  • Contradict

• On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.

  

  Dan Feuerriegel
  • Father
  • Fantastic
  • Brothers

• Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Know
  • Personality
  • Survival

• Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • Economy

• I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Think
  • Will

• Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Understanding
  • Choose
  • Cats

• German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Literature
  • First
  • German

• What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Trying
  • American
  • Find

• Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Death

• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Finger

• It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Music
  • Question

• I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Good
  • Want
  • Movies

• I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Gone
  • Bands
  • Had

• People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Done
  • Question
  • Immigration

• I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • People
  • Music
  • Modeling

• For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Believe
  • Knowledge

• Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle

  

  Kanye West
  • Up
  • Great
  • Hate

• Could we design an all-glass building with internal channels and networks for airflow and water circulation? Can we surpass the great modern tradition of discrete formal and functional partitions and generate an all-in-one building skin?

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Great
  • Water
  • Design

• I wrote 'Snowy' as a result of spending a week on a narrow boat with daily classes of children, helping them to write about canal life, the work of barges, the simple pleasure of watching the water creatures. There was no doubt that the star of their week was Snowy, the working barge horse who pulled us daily along the towpath.

  

  Berlie Doherty
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.'

  

  Peter T. King
  • People
  • Guy
  • Water

• But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Water
  • Rain
  • Thrive