William Shakespeare Quotes

But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.

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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

• What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Work
  • Together
  • Brain

• If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • World
  • Chinese
  • Tomorrow

• I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Way
  • Me
  • Better

• Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Development
  • Advertising

• The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Mind
  • Perception
  • Act

• I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Up
  • Science
  • Being

• 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

• I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Home
  • America
  • Parents

• I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Crazy
  • Did
  • Romeo And Juliet

• Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Very
  • Everybody
  • Clean

• If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Truth
  • You
  • Door

• I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Age
  • Doing
  • Young

• So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Home
  • Run
  • Superstition

• Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.' That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Book
  • House
  • Rules

• I'm on a single track here - I work to direct what I want to see onstage. I basically have been feeding my own needs - to be working on a specific project at a specific time, and fortunately more often it works than fails.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Time
  • Work
  • Want

• 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

• If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries

  

  Ian Botham
  • World
  • Children
  • Done

• It's really very easy for me to be in The Cardinals, because I bring my voice, my guitar, and my songs to them, and then we all play around to find out what works.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Song
  • Play
  • Voice

• That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

  

  Quintilian
  • Perfection
  • Which
  • Soon

• But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Perfection
  • Memorable
  • Absolutes