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

• Farmers present by themselves the basic force of the national movement. Without farmers there can be no strong national movement. This is what we mean when we say that the nationalist question, is actually, the farmers' question.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Question
  • Movement
  • Farmers

• The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Perfect
  • Winter

• I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Acting
  • Theatre
  • Process

• I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.

  

  Paul Strand
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Of course, even the general designation 'religious' includes various basic ideas or convictions, for example, the indestructibility of the soul, the eternity of its existence, the existence of a higher being, etc. But all these ideas, regardless of how convincing they may be for the individual, are submitted to the critical examination of this individual and hence to a fluctuating affirmation or negation until emotional divination or knowledge assumes the binding force of apodictic faith.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Ideas
  • General
  • Convictions

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

  

  William Shakespeare
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  • Merriment