William Steig Quotes

did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never" thunder growled thunder, "lets give him the works

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• SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • Practice
  • Moment

• We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Think
  • You
  • Feminism

• Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Me
  • Present
  • Gift

• I'm trying my best.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Trying
  • Best

• It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Remember
  • Stars
  • Privilege

• It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Christian
  • Difficult
  • Islamic

• I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Writing
  • Together

• I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Play

• I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Book
  • Want
  • Thoughts

• I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Years
  • Right
  • Leg

• So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Up
  • College
  • End

• People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Why
  • Interesting

• The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Father
  • Me
  • King

• My mum taught me to always make sure you protect your skin with SPF. I always make sure I put my St. Tropez SPF on my face every morning, no matter the weather, before I go out of the house.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • House
  • Taught
  • Weather

• I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Life
  • Never
  • Child

• Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • World
  • Think
  • First

• Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • People
  • Live
  • Soul

• A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

  

  Larry Bird
  • God
  • Goals
  • Skills

• Don't ever be afraid of giving. Give. Give of your time, your forgiveness, your understanding, your love. Give of your money. Give to the creation, and you'll be given by the Creator. Be generous, and the Most Generous will be generous with you.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Time
  • Money
  • Giving

• People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great; it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film.

  

  Mike Mills
  • People
  • Giving
  • Film

• For me, trying to articulate the world to help people see it in a way they haven't seen it before is hugely important. Sometimes, you have to take something that is completely inexplicable and say, 'Look, here is the beating heart of something you must understand.'

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Creation
  • Group
  • Imperialism

• The fact that radio is so hopeless at delivering data makes it an uncluttered medium, offering the basic story without the detailed trappings. But it does mean that if data is important, radio is probably not your place.

  

  Evan Davis
  • Story
  • Hopeless
  • Delivering

• did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never" thunder growled thunder, "lets give him the works

  

  William Steig
  • Giving
  • Said
  • Lightning