William Watson Quotes

On from room to room I stray,Yet mine Host can ne'er espy,And I know not to this day,Whether guest or captive I.

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• I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Work
  • Business
  • Success

• You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Matter

• Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Life
  • World
  • Family

• Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • People
  • Great
  • Perfect

• I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Life
  • Wish

• Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn't mean that they're not educated. But we haven't gone to law school and we're not experts on policy. We're just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• If there is any Arab problem we can solve it inside the Arab League. But we are going to deal with the other side, with the Israelis.... It is not me who will decide who will invite, to speak frankly. It is not me, it is not the Arab side, it is not the Israelis who will decide who will invite.

  

  Yasser Arafat

• The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Together

• We did nothing but breathe life into this team, that's all we did.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Life
  • Team
  • Breathe

• Great people do things before they're ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that - that is what life is. You might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I tell girls, 'If you're tall and feel too tall, the answer is to be taller.'

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • Girls
  • Answer
  • Tall

• I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Different
  • Together
  • Song

• The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Time
  • Baby
  • Sense

• She was suddenly aware of him in a way she hadn't been before. Hayward was good-looking in a sweet and wholesome way.

  

  E.D. Baker
  • Good
  • She
  • Sweet

• We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Women
  • Mother
  • Extraordinary

• I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I'm crazy. I swear to God I am.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • God
  • Crazy
  • Lying

• He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Success
  • Financial
  • Patience

• Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the windroaring and whimpering in the rooms.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Love
  • Learning
  • Rooms

• On from room to room I stray,Yet mine Host can ne'er espy,And I know not to this day,Whether guest or captive I.

  

  William Watson
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