William V. Shannon Quotes

Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point, the instinct to see life in a comic light becomes irresistible, and ambition falls before it

William V. Shannon

• Light
• Ambition
• Accomplishment
• Supreme
• Egotism
• Seriousness
• Irresistible

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• You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Push

• I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Know
  • Moments
  • Fast

• I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Give
  • Type
  • Them

• Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Life
  • Live
  • Enjoy

• I have two tutors - a maths tutor and another tutor who does all the other subjects. It is part of the deal with myself; I really want to finish school. I like learning and education, and I think it is really important.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • Important
  • School
  • Education

• Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Women
  • Fashion

• I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Love
  • Art
  • Sound

• The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future historians.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Quality
  • Strength
  • Paper

• I don't like being weak in front of my mum or anyone for that matter. I don't like crying.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Like
  • Matter
  • Crying

• I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Trying
  • Environment
  • Challenge

• I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Work
  • Music
  • Together

• If out of reading this book you get just one thing-an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their angle-if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • May
  • Book

• Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Fashion

• A good honest and painfull sermon.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Good

• Wack job in the back with a black stocking cap/Jacking off to a hockey mask in a boxing match

  

  Eminem
  • Job
  • Black
  • Boxing

• Just as eating against one’s will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.1

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Health

• I truly believe I have the most wonderful fans in the world.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • World
  • Believe
  • Fans

• Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Night
  • Man
  • Light

• I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Film
  • Directors
  • Admires

• Before I came to Bollywood, lot of people told me that here things are not very professional, but I've had no such experience.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Experience
  • Me

• How can finite man commune with an infinite God? To both Christians and Jews, God himself has made that possible by irrupting into the temporal world. To Christians, God became man in the Incarnation; to Jews, the God that spoke out of the fire on Mount Sinai gave his Torah.

  

  Meir Soloveichik
  • World
  • God
  • Fire

• Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point, the instinct to see life in a comic light becomes irresistible, and ambition falls before it

  

  William V. Shannon
  • Light
  • Ambition
  • Accomplishment