William Langland Quotes

A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.

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• We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • World
  • Football
  • Place

• I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Doing

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Age
  • Day
  • Social Media

• Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Different
  • Me
  • Scary

• When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Great
  • You
  • Product

• I think my job is to keep the ball down. I always say I try to go out there and get early contact, and strikeouts just seem to happen.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Job
  • Think
  • Down

• Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Thought
  • New York
  • Living

• I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Always
  • Eat
  • Watching

• A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Good
  • Done
  • Trust

• I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Life
  • Work
  • Start

• And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men’s journeys.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Men

• You write a story, you do a TV show, and if people don't like it, well, you're going to do it again tomorrow.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • People

• When we made 'Toy Story,' journalists were more interested in talking about the technique because it was so new and unknown, and we just wanted to talk about the story.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • Unknown

• Somebody once asked me how I found Peter Jackson, and I said: 'Well, I parted his hair, and there he was.'

  

  Christopher Lee
  • Hair

• I just think Valentine's Day is a day to really appreciate the person you love, no matter who it is, and to spend time with them. I don't think it's all about fancy presents or whatever. I think it's about spending that quality time with that special person.

  

  Prince Royce
  • Time
  • Quality

• Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, experience empathy. People are touched and act ethically when they are emotionally touched.

  

  Bruno Dumont
  • People
  • Experience
  • Empathy

• The fate of Syria hangs in the balance, but it is entirely possible that the fall of the Assad regime will result in anarchy and cause Syria to turn into a second Afghanistan, a base for anti-Israel terrorism.

  

  Martin Van Creveld
  • Fall
  • Balance
  • Fate

• The bigger problem still is that it determines in many ways what movies get made in the first place. Because as sources of finance are considering a project, they ask themselves, "Does this lend itself to a simplistic marketing approach which will guarantee a big opening weekend?" As a movie-goer, I think that's tragic, because when you look back at those movies that made us fall in love with movies in the first place, most of them were not high-concept, and most of them would not have "won their weekend."

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • High

• Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

  

  Aristotle
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Form

• Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Needs
  • Should
  • Christianity

• If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • World
  • Today
  • Effort

• A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.

  

  William Langland
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