William Shenstone Quotes

My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

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• I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Way
  • Trouble
  • Through

• I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Me
  • Better
  • Stronger

• My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Up
  • Parents
  • London

• I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Change
  • Car
  • Oil

• I just can't read music.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Music
  • Read
  • Just

• There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Society
  • Eye

• When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Air
  • Cold
  • Sick

• To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Beautiful
  • Sleep
  • Woman

• I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.

  

  Kara Walker
  • People
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Fun
  • Worry

• The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • Happy
  • Beautiful

• I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Life
  • Success
  • Faith

• We have to be able to criticize what we love,Say what we have to say,'Cause if you're not trying to make something better,Then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Trying

• Don’t confuse rescue and kidnapping. I have not asked to be rescued.

  

  Kameron Hurley

• Demosthenes: A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes

• A single thought transfuses every form; The sunny day is changed into the storm, For light is dark, hard soft, and cold is warm.One presence fill and floods the whole serene; Nothing can be, nothing has ever been, Except the one truth that creates the scene.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Truth
  • Light
  • Single

• Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Italian

• Extremely surprised and impressed by the 'naked cowboy's' mayoral run. That guy knows the issues... despite his outfit or lack thereof.

  

  David Shuster
  • Guy
  • Cowboy

• Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Past
  • Law
  • Moving

• 'It was as true,' said Mr. Barkis, 'as turnips is. It was as true,' said Mr. Barkis, nodding his nightcap, which was his only means of emphasis, 'as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.'

  

  David Copperfield
  • True

• We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • School
  • Love
  • Blood

• I was being flirted with for 'Modern Family,' which my wife still hasn't let me live down, but it's one of those things where that show is so brilliant because the casting couldn't be any more perfect. It wouldn't have been right for me, and I wouldn't have been right for it.

  

  Josh Gad
  • Family
  • Perfect
  • Wife

• My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Sleep
  • Bees
  • Invites