William Mackergo Taylor Quotes

We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a hymn — the melody of which will be recognized by all who come in contact with us, and the power of which shall not be evanescent, like the voice of the singer, but perennial, like the music of the spheres.

William Mackergo Taylor

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• I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Team
  • Chance
  • Awesome

• The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Hand
  • Best
  • Look

• If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Me
  • Unique
  • One Thing

• My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Powerful
  • Woman
  • Afraid

• It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reality

• When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Music
  • School
  • Myself

• Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Power
  • Night
  • Goal

• I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Learning
  • Democracy

• Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Courage
  • Back
  • Daniel

• The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Up
  • Night
  • Morning

• I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Kids
  • Help
  • Need

• I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

  

  Patrick White
  • Writing
  • Door
  • Habit

• I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Man
  • Judge
  • Sure

• Music is organized sound.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Music
  • Sound
  • Organized

• Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Challenge

• I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Look
  • Successful

• I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She's sort of become my fairy godmother.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Time
  • Song
  • Night

• I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Time
  • Work
  • Mind

• Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Artist
  • Warrior
  • Tattoo

• No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.

  

  Abdul Qadeer Khan
  • Money
  • Nation
  • Grateful

• I am deeply grateful to the President and to my country. ... To come from Cincinnati, Ohio, for God's sake, then to go to Hollywood, and to get this kind of tribute from my country. ... I love this country so much.

  

  Doris Day
  • God
  • Country
  • President

• We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a hymn — the melody of which will be recognized by all who come in contact with us, and the power of which shall not be evanescent, like the voice of the singer, but perennial, like the music of the spheres.

  

  William Mackergo Taylor
  • Grateful
  • Melody
  • Rounds