William Shakespeare Quotes

Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.

William Shakespeare

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• I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Still
  • Medium
  • Pen

• My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Parents
  • Passion

• Any actor wants their movies and their work to be seen. You don't make a movie or get into this profession for your work not to be seen and just to show them to your mates at home.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Work
  • Home
  • Movie

• My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Music
  • Father
  • Me

• When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Celebrity
  • Athlete
  • Gymnastics

• No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • She
  • Woman
  • Sexy

• The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Together

• It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Heart
  • Start
  • Building

• As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Remember
  • Forever
  • I Can

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Politics
  • Vote

• More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Lost

• How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Beautiful
  • Right
  • Expression

• Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Important
  • Talent

• The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. What's thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Country
  • Business
  • Experience

• Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Design
  • Inspired
  • Difference

• I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Remember
  • Culture

• And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.

  

  William Blake
  • Happy
  • Water
  • Child

• Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Two
  • Drunk
  • Don't Think

• Do what you like and do it honestly.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • Like
  • Honestly
  • Do

• I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Fight
  • Liberty
  • Terrorism

• The constitution regulates our stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator of the universe. We are his stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure in the highest attainable degree their happiness.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Purpose
  • Justice
  • Liberty

• Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Liberty
  • Woe
  • Headstrong