Edward Joseph Young Quotes

Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

Edward Joseph Young

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• If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Today
  • Jesus
  • Blue

• I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • True
  • Think
  • Democracy

• I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • Black
  • Myself

• I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Eyes
  • Learning
  • Forget

• When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Sex appeal is a good thing for commercial cinema. Though I can't sit at home and consider myself a sex symbol, it is for people to do so. I want to be known as an interesting actor.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Good
  • Home

• I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Time
  • Same
  • Try

• It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.

  

  Doris Day
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Star

• If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Picture

• I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • God
  • Real
  • Why

• I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Word
  • Higher
  • Wander

• The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • World
  • Religion
  • Ornaments

• To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Murder
  • Ordinary

• Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Man
  • Vain
  • Free Choice

• I get emails every day from people saying, "I never heard your music. I don't know anything about you. I just happened to watch this on Netflix. I hope you're feeling better. More power to you." It just shows you, I don't know, how generous and wonderful people can be.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Wonderful

• Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Disease
  • Vain
  • Idiots