William Wetmore Story Quotes

But the gray and the cold are haunted by a beauty akin to pain, by a sense of a something wanted that never will come again.

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• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Song
  • Nice
  • Lies

• The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Being
  • More
  • Minute

• The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Leadership

• We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Freedom
  • Realize
  • Kingdom

• I really love to play 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. I can still read music, but I need to practise more. The way your fingers move - it's something that comes from memory. I love music.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Music
  • Play
  • Picture

• Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Work
  • Persistence
  • Work Hard

• You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Success
  • Never
  • Doing

• My retail partners, they are my brand ambassadors. They're the ones who are selling the shoes to women.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Women
  • Shoes
  • Brand

• I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Truth
  • Famous

• Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious.

  

  Deepak Chopra

• People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Wonder

• I got a strong spirit that I rely on and go into. It allows me to prepare and drive forward.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Strong

• For me, the issue is if I'm your advocate, if I'm your representative, my job is to stand up for you and talk about you and defend you.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Up
  • Job

• When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expected to do that, nor to have any success at it at least.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Work
  • Success
  • Dance

• Kids are anarchy writ large.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Kids

• I started getting Twitter followers after I started doing press for 'Fargo.' One of my best friends from college is a librarian, and she started tracking after each interview how many Twitter followers I got. She and her librarian friends were like, 'We're going to make a graph.' And I was like, 'Alright, nerds.'

  

  Allison Tolman
  • She
  • Friends
  • College

• I just hitch up my girdle and let 'er fly.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Up
  • Fly
  • Hitch

• They were all eccentric, touched, ill-intentioned, ignorant, superstitious, avaricious, or full members of nitwitry.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Ignorant
  • They
  • Eccentric

• People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • People
  • Writing
  • Pain

• The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Truths
  • British
  • Preacher

• Selfish people are, by definition, those whose activities are devoted to bringing themselves happiness. Yet. . . these selfish people are far less likely to be happy than those whose efforts are devoted to making others happy.

  

  Bernard Rimland
  • Happiness
  • Selfish
  • Activities

• But the gray and the cold are haunted by a beauty akin to pain, by a sense of a something wanted that never will come again.

  

  William Wetmore Story
  • Pain
  • Wanted