William Oldys Quotes
Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I! Freely welcome to my cup, Could'st thou sip and sip it up; Make the most of life you may; Life is short and wears away.
Quotes to Explore
-
Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
-
I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
-
What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
-
There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
-
I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.
-
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
-
To oppose something is to maintain it.
-
Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
-
Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.
-
The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
-
Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
-
Zef is, you're poor, but you're fancy. You're poor, but you're sexy; you've got style.
-
I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
-
I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.
-
I'm obsessed with Juice Press - they're everywhere. I spend so much money at that place it's crazy.
-
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
-
In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.'
-
I was a bit of a rebel.
-
[Walter White] had keep [people] waiting while you got the impression that he was terribly busy with calls to Washington. I've seen such exhibitions in that direction as having someone come out of his office to the switchboard operator - which at that time was sort of located in the center of wherever people were waiting - and ask to call such-and-such a place, or a call through to Mr. So-and-so, or somebody like this, you see.
-
Maybe I'm too busy being yours to fall for somebody new.
-
One of the reasons I was so proud to be born on April 3, is because I am such a big fan of yours.
-
The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
-
Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I! Freely welcome to my cup, Could'st thou sip and sip it up; Make the most of life you may; Life is short and wears away.
