William Shakespeare Quotes

Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

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• I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Family

• I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Love
  • American
  • Christmas

• It was Britney's movie. I liked that movie. It didn't get too much love, but a lot of people really liked it.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • People
  • Love
  • Movie

• Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just as the craft can. But a workshop where the trade is the principal focus of interest is not a writing workshop. It is a business class.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Focus

• We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Past
  • Stop
  • Choices

• I do still think there is a big disconnect between Republicans in Washington, D.C., and Republicans everywhere I go. When you start talking about, you know, foreign entanglements, they just don`t want any part of it.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Thinking
  • Bigs
  • Republican

• Most young people now are very vulnerable as to what the American film aficionados are going to say. They care too much about a system that has no room for them. It's really a serious issue for me, because to me it's, how do I survive beyond a film that was disgraced or praised?

  

  Haile Gerima
  • People
  • American
  • Serious

• There`s only one list that`s more illustrious than the list of directors who won the Palme d`Or. It`s the list of directors who didn`t.

  

  Quentin Tarantino

• There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • People
  • Chaos
  • Lines

• Most people's strategy to achieve more is to do more. But when you focus on becoming more, you find that you can achieve more by doing less.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • People
  • Focus
  • inspirational

• Can I ask you a question?" "I'd be disappointed if you didn't." "How many of those suits do you have? Do you like, send them to the laundry, or throw them out and put on a new one when it gets all gamey?" - Bobby talking to Saint Dane, RR

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Question

• The history of each and every territory is written in the blood of those who died trying to fulfill the aspirations of their ambitious leaders.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Trying
  • History
  • Leader

• I'll tell you what a friendship is to me. Friendship to me is, if my friends need my little finger to live, I'm going to have it cut off. I'm going to the hospital, they cut off my finger, and maybe I have a gold finger instead, and I become famous. But I still give it to my friend.

  

  Udo Kier
  • Live
  • Friends
  • Friend

• Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh, God, what for?

  

  Olaf Stapledon
  • Time
  • God
  • Cold

• Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.

  

  Olaf Stapledon
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Spirit
  • Garden
  • Rose

• Most women at some point or many points in their lives will have to deal with an unwanted advance and having the confidence to be "rude" and say no is an important skill to develop.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • Important
  • Deals
  • Skills

• What is necessary is to teach each class and profession the importance of the others. All together form one mighty body; labourer, peasant, and professional man.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Teach
  • Profession
  • Importance

• I like double albums, ... And this was kind of a double album. And with double albums, sometimes you say, 'Well this is a whole lot to process.' But then you listen to it again and you start to develop favorites and it gets a character all its own. And then you think maybe you see this movie later on TV and you start to think, 'Well, you know what? I get it. That all these themes are supposed to be part of a bigger simpler theme.'

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Process

• Jefferson, though the secret vote was still unknown at the time had at least a foreboding of how dangerous it might be to allow the people to share a public power without providing them at the same time with more public space than the ballot box and with more opportunity to make their voices heard in public than on election day. What he perceived to be the mortal danger to the republic was that the Constitution had given all power to the citizens, without giving them the opportunity of being citizens and of acting as citizens.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Opportunity
  • Danger
  • Constitution

• The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all. No wonder we trusted him, he never lied to us. ... His stubbornness, even defiance, in the face of facts ('stupid things,' he once called them in a memorable slip) was nothing short of splendid. ... This is the man who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Men
  • Wonder
  • Ignorance

• Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

  

  William Shakespeare
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  • Merriment