William Crawford Williamson Quotes

An old medical friend gave me some excellent practical advice. He said: "You will have for some time to go much oftener down steps than up steps. Never mind! win the good opinions of washerwomen and such like, and in time you will hear of their recommendations of you to the wealthier families by whom they are employed." I did so, and found it succeed as predicted.

William Crawford Williamson

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• A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • House
  • Man

• I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Up
  • School
  • Remember

• I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.

  

  Becky G
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Own

• You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • You
  • Right
  • Counsel

• Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • World
  • Real
  • Art

• Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Life
  • Way
  • Funny

• I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Home
  • Truth
  • Game

• When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.

  

  Walt Whitman

• Isn't it funnyHow a bear likes honey?Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!I wonder why he does?

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Why
  • Wonder

• Now I wonder what our knowledge has in common with God's knowledge according to those who treat God's knowledge... Is there anything else common to both besides the mere name? ...there is an essential distinction between His knowledge and ours, like the distinction between the substance of the heavens and that of the earth.

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Earth
  • Knowledge

• Dennis Martinez's perfect game at Dodger Stadium, July 28, 1991, based off of video on mlb.com

  

  Vin Scully
  • Game
  • Perfect

• I will simply call attention to the fact that it is an ideal utterly inconsistent with that of those Communists who falsely call themselves Anarchists while at the same time advocating a regime of Archism fully as despotic as that of the State Socialists themselves.

  

  Benjamin Tucker
  • Time
  • Attention

• A star needs all the rest she can get.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • She
  • Rest
  • Star

• I just wear jeans, big motorcycle boots and T-shirts that are way too big for me. I like anything that has lived a little bit, that has traces of life on it. Knitwear that's a tiny bit too long because you've pulled it with your hands, or jeans that are starting to get holes.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Life
  • Long
  • Motorcycle

• Ralph Lemon is my idol. But music is my biggest passion. Frank Ocean's 'Pyramids' is on repeat. That kind of stuff with Frank Ocean makes me cry.

  

  Kyle Abraham
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Ocean

• The first real gig I went to was Randy Crawford in 1980. Seeing a big star like that was just fantastic.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Real
  • Star

• The first couple shows I did by myself, I was looking around wondering where the rest of my band was.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Band
  • Rest
  • Couple

• I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.

  

  Bruce Coville
  • Writing

• I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • People
  • Money
  • Nice

• I have made a career out of my hobby, which is an incredibly fortunate position to be in, but you have to have the passion. Even today, I will go down to the studio and start singing for what I think is 10 minutes, and I look at the clock, and it's been two hours.

  

  Colm Wilkinson
  • Today
  • Career
  • Passion

• Stop thinking... Start doing. Think less... Do more. Do the thing... And you will know the way.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • inspirational

• An old medical friend gave me some excellent practical advice. He said: "You will have for some time to go much oftener down steps than up steps. Never mind! win the good opinions of washerwomen and such like, and in time you will hear of their recommendations of you to the wealthier families by whom they are employed." I did so, and found it succeed as predicted.

  

  William Crawford Williamson
  • Mind
  • Success
  • Opinion