William Johnson Cory Quotes

They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.

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• I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • I Can

• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

  Gary Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Fame
  • Bear

• There's no time for boys in my life right now.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Life
  • Time
  • My Life

• My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Different
  • Character
  • First

• A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • People
  • Truth
  • Mom

• Nothing was made in Trinidad.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Made
  • Nothing

• I just want to have fun.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Have Fun

• I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Loved

• If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Art
  • Man
  • Study

• I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Live
  • Taken

• If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Think
  • Rich
  • Flying

• My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Job
  • Actor
  • Fame

• Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.

  

  Mahavira
  • Control
  • Greatest
  • Eating

• I'm sometimes mistaken as the wife of the chairman. I just laugh it off.

  

  Patricia A. Woertz
  • Wife
  • Sometimes
  • Laugh

• In 10 months, I was replaced from three films. That's when I realised I need to take my work seriously. It's a blessing I didn't get things easy. If I had, I wouldn't realise the value of success.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Success
  • Value

• All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Human
  • Happens
  • Human Beings

• The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Alive
  • Championship

• Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Women
  • Power
  • Age

• Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Proud

• More and more, museums will look at restaurants and chefs differently - as if they are curating art.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Art

• A strong story can move me to tears, and it doesn't matter whether it's a science-fiction or fantasy world. It's about what happens to a person, the choices they make. That's what's interesting.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • World
  • Science
  • Strong

• Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Never
  • News
  • Awake

• They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.

  

  William Johnson Cory
  • Tears
  • News
  • Bitter