William Shakespeare Quotes

thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.

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• You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • You
  • Judge
  • Them

• Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • Being

• I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Different
  • Animal
  • Sick

• Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

  

  La Monte Young
  • People
  • You
  • Education

• I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • America
  • Working
  • Class

• On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Space
  • Two
  • Test

• I always work with 18 friends.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Always

• There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it's not as if every gay person is a great creator.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Great
  • Fashion

• During the season, I dodge the media, kind of. It's not that I'm trying to avoid them, but I know if they get a hold of me, there's going to be, like, 10 people around me, and I'm going to have to answer question after question, where in that time, after practice, I need to be taking care of my body and recovering.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I'm supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project's ambition - to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship - is something I feel strongly about.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • School
  • Culture
  • Ambition

• Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Television
  • Industry
  • Sphere

• You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.

  

  Foster Friess
  • You
  • Control
  • Circumstances

• Music was my one way to vent.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Way
  • Vent

• Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Ultimate
  • Guns

• It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Sea
  • River

• I'm not trying to make anyone forget the Babe; but only to remember Hank Aaron.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Trying
  • Remember

• The skies they were ashen and sober;The leaves they were crisped and sere - The leaves they were withering and sere;It was night in the lonesome OctoberOf my most immemorial year.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Night

• To me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is impossible to know anything approaching the whole truth about past events. Even the people living them could not possibly understand. That truth is always out of reach.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Truth
  • Past

• When you rebound the ball we're able to move the ball, and we want to get out and run, try to get guys some easy baskets. We don't want to come out and play a half-court game all the time.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Time
  • Game
  • Play

• The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• I feel a kinship to the idea of beloved stories and beloved pieces of art that we can imagine in different ways and sort of take a meta approach in terms of what those stories offer us.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Different
  • Art

• Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in and out of cover on the plains and highlands. And at night, when the whole world belongs to them, they parley at the river with the dogs, their higher, sharper voices full of authority and rebuke. They are an old council of clowns, and they are listened to.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • World
  • Night
  • Vision

• I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Environment

• thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.

  

  William Shakespeare
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