William Shakespeare Quotes

Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.

William Shakespeare

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• I get homesick.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Get
  • Homesick

• My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. It's very abundant. The fuels are everywhere. There are problems with fusion.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Energy
  • Problems
  • Clean

• To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Serious

• It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Children

• You've got to keep an open mind.

  

  Chris Wallace
  • Mind

• As a friend once pointed out, the crotchety dowagers do tend to get all the best lines. That may be why I have so many of them in my books.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Why
  • May
  • Friend

• I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

  

  David Lean

• I think the biggest challenge is to continue on the same path. I think it's easy to become complacent from the success you've had.

  

  Jason Derulo
  • Success
  • Challenge
  • Path

• When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.

  

  Chuck Feeney

• The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

  

  Johan Huizinga
  • Power

• Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Hand
  • Winning
  • Mad

• Baryonyx is on display at the Natural History Museum in London. If you ever get the chance to view this wonderful specimen, remember that you just might be looking at the skeleton of one of the dragons from English history and legend (e.g., Sir George the Dragon Slayer) or one of the dragons spoken of in the Bible.

  

  Ken Ham
  • Remember
  • History
  • English

• The trick is to be Zen about it. Winning is sometimes not the prize

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Winning

• The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Photography
  • Stills
  • Photographer

• What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.

  

  A. Theodore Tuttle
  • Done
  • Past
  • Preparation

• It is another face in the new atmosphere of many leaders inside Israel. No doubt it is something new. Actually, Ezer Weizman is a Palestinian. He was born in Haifa.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Doubt

• Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never; Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams! Birth-less and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit forever. Death hath not touched it all, dead though the house of it seems!

  

  Edwin Arnold
  • Time
  • House
  • Death

• It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Family
  • Except
  • Enlightened

• I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Up
  • Women
  • Respect

• I think everything you are, everything that engages you, eventually comes to bear on the novel you write. I think the creative energy in novel writing, obviously, comes from tension. From trying to fuse. From trying to make coherent disparate things that might not at all seem to belong together within a narrative.

  

  Francisco Goldman
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Creative

• The first principle of all action is leisure.

  

  Aristotle
  • Action
  • Principle
  • Leisure

• What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell the story of American history. It takes months and years of research. I can't even tell you how laborious that is. You have to be somebody who has a lot of free time, like a professor who can take tenure or someone with a great deal of leisure.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Deals
  • Historian
  • Leisure

• Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

  

  William Taylor
  • Hours
  • Temptation
  • Leisure

• Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Leisure