William Langland Quotes

I kan noght parfitly my Paternoster as the preest it syngeth,But I kan rymes of Robyn Hood and Randolf Erl of Chestre.

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• Men are separated by so many petty things.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Men
  • Things
  • Petty

• As a youngster, my parents made me aware that all that was from the African Diaspora belonged to me. So I came in with Caribbean music, African music, Latin music, gospel music and blues.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Gospel

• When I was a 25-year-old kid, I raised $260,000 for my first show, 'The Pajama Game,' in such a homemade, pathetic, endearing way - a buck here, a buck there.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Game
  • First
  • Kid

• I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Period

• There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • People
  • Good
  • Laugh

• O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Great
  • Kind
  • Challenge

• One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Too many younger people seem to prefer following celebrities instead of doing the work required to get an education that will someday lead to a job. If students today spent as much time on math and science and history as they do following these shallow celebrities, they might actually become contributors to society someday.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

  

  Jo Stafford
  • Mercy

• When you are shooting action, there is a satisfying thing because your objectives are very clear.

  

  Clive Owen
  • Action

• We are quite open, however, to looking at acquisitions and there are opportunities that we periodically consider. and I think that may be something we do in the future, but I must say that there is no commitment to that at the present time in any form or size.

  

  David Milne
  • Time
  • May
  • Future

• There's always something to talk about.

  

  Boomer Esiason

• I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

  

  Colin Baker
  • Movie

• The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.

  

  Pete Rose
  • Team

• As a longtime political operative, I know firsthand how a vote here or a vote there can make a huge difference in a close election.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Political

• I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

  

  Colin Quinn
  • People

• I've never seen 'Evil Dead 2.' Sorry about that. I'm sorry to the world.

  

  Jane Levy
  • World
  • Evil
  • Sorry

• In a perfect world, I'd like to start running comics for kids - by kids.

  

  Mark Waid
  • World
  • Kids
  • Running

• Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Remember
  • Understanding
  • Dirty

• My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the simple imitation of sounds and gestures, Quotation is the most natural and most frequent habitude of human nature. For, Quotation must not be confined to passages adduced out of authors. He who cites the opinion, or remark, or saying of another, whether it has been written or spoken, is certainly one who quotes; and this we shall find to be universally practiced.

  

  James Boswell
  • Consider
  • Readers
  • Quotation

• There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Wings
  • Purple
  • Evening

• No one purposefully paints a bad painting. It's someone who's trying to do a good painting, but it's terrible. I have one with a matador, and the bull is going through the blanket. You can tell the painter didn't know how to paint it.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Bad

• I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

  

  Lenny Kravitz
  • True

• I kan noght parfitly my Paternoster as the preest it syngeth,But I kan rymes of Robyn Hood and Randolf Erl of Chestre.

  

  William Langland
  • Noght
  • Preest