William Shenstone Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
-
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.
-
My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
-
I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
-
I just can't read music.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.
-
I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
-
The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.
-
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
-
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.
-
Don’t confuse rescue and kidnapping. I have not asked to be rescued.
-
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)
-
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.
-
It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He's done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
-
As free human beings we can use our unique intelligence to try to understand ourselves and our world. But if we are prevented from using our creative potential, we are deprived of one of the basic characteristics of a human being.
-
Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.
-
Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep.
-
The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
-
My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
