William Wycherley Quotes

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

William Wycherley

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• Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, the back end is what ultimately counts.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Movie
  • High
  • Water

• Any time you can get a muscle car back, it's a good thing.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Time
  • Good
  • Car

• I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Like
  • One Thing

• I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Comfortable

• Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we're making the right decision. What we do know is that wherever we are, that's where the Light wants us to be. It's the best place for us to be now. And as long as we don't try to control the situation, then we won't end up in the place we shouldn't be.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Long
  • Light

• I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Ugly
  • Stage
  • Walk

• I was in a convent for a year.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Year
  • Convent

• I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• Everything I publish is for my readers.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Everything
  • Readers
  • Publish

• When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Think
  • Government
  • Just

• 'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Home

• We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Time
  • Work
  • Same

• I will say this: I've had more pro-life bills, I believe, I ruled unconstitutional - but I tried - than the entire total membership of Congress together.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Together

• We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Situation
  • Europe
  • Currency

• Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Connection

• It is easy to say we believe in God as long as we remain in the little world we choose to live in; but get out into the great world of facts, the noisy world where people are absolutely indifferent to you, where your message is nothing more than a crazy tale belonging to a bygone age, can you believe God there?

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Mind
  • Surviving

• I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Character

• Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • World
  • Hope
  • Reality

• This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name...

  

  Mike Shinoda Linkin Park
  • Pleasure
  • Luck
  • Percent

• I went out to visit Dorsey Burnette, after I graduated high school.

  

  Jimmy Griffin Black Tie
  • School
  • Visit

• Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.

  

  Erik Larson
  • Lost
  • Should
  • Written

• Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

  

  William Wycherley
  • Pleasure
  • Mistress