Richard Steele Quotes

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.

Richard Steele

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• Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Small
  • Light
  • Cooking

• 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

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

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Time
  • Good
  • Car

• I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Comfortable

• 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

• It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Time
  • Business
  • Lost

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Connection

• I think many people have an illusion of success based on entering in at a level that's higher than their experiences.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Success

• Just breathe. Sometimes you're only a few breaths away from feeling better.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Feeling
  • Breathe

• This is a show I've always wanted to do. I wanted to do this 15 years ago. We lived in San Diego and my church group there was going to get to do it and I had everything ready to go, but they didn't get the rights. They had to change everything at the last minute, and I've been holding on to the script and director's book since then.

  

  Luke Ford
  • Book
  • Church
  • Directors

• From every human being there rises a light.

  

  Israel ben Eliezer
  • Light

• When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

  

  Aristotle
  • Pleasure
  • Jury
  • Impartial

• A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

  

  Anne Spencer
  • Pleasure
  • Achieve
  • Married

• The acquisition of an accurate and easy conversation, of some skill in music, and in pure and healthful diversions, are of great benefit in fitting one for social intercourse, in which one of the greatest sources of pleasure is found.

  

  Joseph P. Bradley
  • Pleasure
  • Conversation
  • Sources

• People seem to think that my movies are so carefully coordinated and arranged - and in a lot of ways, they are - but every single time I make a movie, I feel that every director makes these choices. You make choices about your script, you make choices about your actors, and how you're going to stage it, and how you're going to shoot it, and what the costumes are going to be like, and in every single detail, you make that decision. And for me, what ends up happening is, I wind up surprised at the combination of all these ingredients. It never is anything like what I expected.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • People
  • Decision
  • Choices

• There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.

  

  Richard Steele
  • Pleasure
  • Receiving