Richard Le Gallienne Quotes

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

Richard Le Gallienne

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• Goodness
• Jealousy
• Calumny

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• I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • Feel
  • Class
  • Last

• In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Support
  • Play
  • Listening

• When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after 'the little redhead girl'.

  

  Alicia Witt
  • Happy
  • Dream
  • Girl

• We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them the C.I.A., … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.

  

  Jeff Bezos

• Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Experience
  • Growth

• I play knowing that there is somebody watching me out there in the crowd that has never had the opportunity to watch a game before and it might be the only chance they ever to see one, live in person. Michael Jordan once said that in an interview, and I really took it to heart; whenever I step on the floor, I play for that person.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Game

• I only make movies to finance my fishing.

  

  Lee Marvin
  • Fishing

• I will forever be grateful to my oncologist for opening the door and saying, 'Damn it, the tumor's 10 percent bigger,' before he even said hello.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Forever
  • Door

• At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Waking

• With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

  

  Kenneth L. Pike
  • Science

• Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.

  

  Ellen G. White

• Increased spending, growing government debt and overreaching regulations are stifling job creation and economic growth.

  

  Joe Craft
  • Job
  • Growing
  • Growth

• I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and that I have no gift for actually doing science myself. But I'm very interested in others who practice science and in the stories of science.

  

  Andrea Barrett
  • Science
  • Practice

• Climate change - we can debate that until the cows come home, for lack of a better way of stating that. The bottom line is, I do not believe that man is contributing to that factor.

  

  Darryl Glenn
  • Believe
  • Home

• To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Remember

• With a smaller setting, you have a lot more freedom and flexibility within a given moment, but not necessarily the velocity you have with a big band.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Freedom
  • Band

• The fact is, when you date an artist, you have to know that they're going to sing about you.

  

  Tove Lo

• Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.

  

  Jim Nussle
  • Growing

• There are two aspects to being competitive; one is to do with sports, and the other is about technical skills. Being able to recollect the moves and apply them when necessary is a critical aspect.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Moving
  • Sports
  • Able

• Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone.

  

  William Petersen
  • Heart
  • Closest
  • Heathers

• Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Book
  • Cooking
  • Clever

• There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Song
  • Travel
  • Monster

• If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Writing
  • Study
  • Forget

• There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

  

  Richard Le Gallienne
  • Thinking
  • Goodness
  • Jealousy