William Shakespeare Quotes

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

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• The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Life
  • Never
  • Actor

• Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • World
  • Live
  • Human

• 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

• I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Like
  • Feel

• At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • School
  • Friends
  • Only

• I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Me
  • Things
  • Said

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• Hemingway was a jerk.

  

  Harold Robbins
  • Jerk
  • Hemingway

• 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

• Travelling expands the mind rarely.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Mind
  • Travel
  • Travelling

• I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.'

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Great
  • Deep
  • Restaurant

• It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Family
  • Eye
  • Strange

• My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Soldier

• No man ever listened himself out of a job.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Job
  • Man
  • Out

• It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive, and there's a burden to that.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Great
  • Human
  • Better

• Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Sky
  • Drink
  • Shoulder

• I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Love
  • Think
  • For Her

• The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Think
  • Best
  • Politics

• A cocktail done right can really show your guests that you care.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Done

• Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Sin

• Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fine because that's public domain. I know exactly what I'm doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it's saying, 'This is who I am, and I don't have anything to hide.'

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Public
  • Hide
  • Twitter

• We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.

  

  Andrew Garfield
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Financial

• Denys Cowan and Dwayne Turner's visions of Wakanda as an ersatz African Epcot Center opened my eyes to the unexploited possibilities; these men, both of whom are African American, together with writer Peter B. Gillis, created an African Asgard of sorts, and I just went, 'Oh, my.'

  

  Christopher Priest
  • Men
  • American
  • Together

• When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Littles
  • Worst