William Shenstone Quotes
The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.
William Shenstone
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
Ursula Burns
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley
I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
Ingrid Betancourt
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
Federico Fellini
SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
Safra A. Catz
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Ignazio Silone
Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
Natalie Cole
When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
Tariq Ali
During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
Randeep Hooda
When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
Zong Qinghou
I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
Rachel Kushner
I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.
Bobby Knight
To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly narrow and cracked determinism.
Joan Didion
To define [Canada] or its literature seems like putting a finger on Zeno's arrow: no sooner do you think you have done it than it has moved on.
Moyez G. Vassanji
I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.
Jack Vance
The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.
William Shenstone
