William Archibald Spooner Quotes

Poor soul - very sad; her late husband, you know, a very sad death - eaten by missionaries - poor soul.

William Archibald Spooner

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• I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Think
  • Girls
  • Horrible

• For me to go casual is not to go simple. To me, it is to be able to bring back the art of tradition and the soul of French food and my interpretation of that.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Food

• We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Time
  • World
  • New Things

• I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• I'm a child of the Sixties.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Child
  • Sixties

• I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • People
  • Work
  • Care

• I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • People
  • Up
  • Single

• The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that say that they don't even listen to this kind of music, but, 'We love watching the show.'

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Art
  • Know
  • Conceptual

• It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • You
  • Enough
  • Swing

• Without a dog, you'd never have anyone demonstrate how important it is to stop every day and smell the roses... and then lift your leg on them.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Important
  • Stop
  • Day

• The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Success
  • Man

• I start my day with granola, fresh fruit, and skim milk and end it with something healthy that also comes from my own kitchen.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Day
  • End
  • Start

• I'm not a homosexual, but if I can be an ally for that issue, I think it's fantastic.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Think
  • I Can
  • Fantastic

• When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • School
  • Play
  • Down

• I used to keep injuries to myself. It would just make it worse and worse. Now I'm having none of that.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Myself
  • Now
  • Injuries

• All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Together
  • Design

• The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Art
  • Revolution

• The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God

  

  Yann Martel
  • God
  • Mind
  • Want

• There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds upon hundreds upon thousands of candles. The whole graveyard was one swarm of candleshine as if a population of fireflies had heard of a Grand Conglomeration and had flown here to settle in and flame upon the stones and light the brown faces and the dark eyes and the black hair.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Black
  • Dark
  • Son

• I think it's one of those funny things - sometimes you're not really friends with somebody until you've gotten into a good fight, and I think that's the situation with Superman and Batman.

  

  Mark Valley
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Funny

• All I care about is making jokes that are funny and making people laugh.

  

  Joel McHale
  • People
  • Funny

• oh, my God," I whispered. "But how did they get my photo? Alex tapped his mouth with his thumb. "That ...book with everyone's picture in it, that you have in high school." "Yearbook," I said. Was he trying to be funny? But of course he was right; that's exactly where it was from.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • God
  • Trying
  • School

• Poor soul - very sad; her late husband, you know, a very sad death - eaten by missionaries - poor soul.

  

  William Archibald Spooner
  • Funny
  • Husband
  • Knows