William Sharp Quotes

The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.

William Sharp

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• One of the things we're trying to do more of is not just take money from corporate partnerships, but get more involved in the business side for when I retire. So Puma are going to make me an ambassador for life. I have a clothing line coming out. I am investing a lot in housing in Jamaica, buildings for rent.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Money

• Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Firsts

• Time is an illusion.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Time
  • Illusion

• We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Choose
  • Develop
  • Vocabularies

• The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement in bills of mortality. Each disease has in many instances been denoted by three or four terms, and each term has been applied to as many different diseases ; vague, inconvenient names have been employed, or complications have been registered, instead of primary diseases. The nomenclature is of as much importance in this depart- ment of inquiry as weights and measures in the physical sciences, and should be settled without delay.

  

  William Farr
  • Attention
  • Perfect
  • Importance

• Everybody knows: people, operations, and the HR component of Google is one critical strategic asset that we have.

  

  Patrick Pichette
  • People
  • Google
  • Strategic

• The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.

  

  Rebecca Harding Davis
  • Giving
  • Tragedy
  • Destruction

• I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.

  

  Chad Everett
  • Different
  • Feelings
  • Acting

• If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.

  

  B. W. Powe
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Gold

• I've had a great time on the road, I would say shooting guns with a silencer in Jacksonville, Fla.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Shooting

• Well then. Will the naysayers please leave the universe?

  

  Charles Stross
  • Universe

• Nelson '...People are crazy. At times when I'm with clients I can't see the difference between them and me, except for the structure we're all in. I get paid, a little, and they get taken care of, a little.'

  

  John Updike
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Taken

• Pink Friday Eminem 8 Mile, It must hurt to sell your album on Paypal.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Hurt
  • Friday
  • Pink

• We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Wind
  • Destiny
  • Ocean

• But the bravest man among us is afraid of himself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Afraid
  • Bravest

• I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Up
  • Band
  • Player

• What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

  

  Thomas More
  • Play
  • Wells
  • Carpe

• Eighteen thousand miles from the moon is some slide, but I'll get up there again some way!

  

  Winsor McCay
  • Thousand
  • Eighteen
  • Slides

• The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.

  

  William Sharp
  • Slides
  • Carpe
  • Steep