William Shakespeare Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I get homesick.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You've got to keep an open mind.
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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.
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I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.
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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.
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When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.
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The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.
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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.
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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.
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The trick is to be Zen about it. Winning is sometimes not the prize
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.
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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.
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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!
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It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.
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Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
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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.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.
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The first principle of all action is leisure.
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Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.
