Elizabeth Wordsworth Quotes

If all the good people were clever And all the clever people were good The world would be nicer than ever We thought that it possibly could. But somehow, 'tis seldom or ner The two hit it off as they should The good are so harsh to the clever The clever so rude to the good!

Elizabeth Wordsworth

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• Good People

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• An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

  

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• In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Life
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• I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Up
  • Work
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• Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
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• Travelling expands the mind rarely.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Mind
  • Travel
  • Travelling

• I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Lucky
  • Got
  • Seasons

• The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Kids
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• I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Nice
  • Fact
  • Diamond

• I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I dug it. I thought it was cool.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Cool
  • Thought
  • Street

• It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Idea
  • German
  • Legal

• I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Up
  • Father
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• I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Good
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  • Reading

• The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • You
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  • Test

• Natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• And Watford acknowledge the support of the crowd, indeed of the crowd that supported them.

  

  Barry Davies
  • Support
  • Acknowledge
  • Crowd

• All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.

  

  Deborah Moggach
  • People
  • World
  • Alone

• Let the world slide, let the world go;A fig for care, and a fig for woe!If I can't pay, why I can owe,And death makes equal the high and low.

  

  John Heywood
  • World
  • Why
  • High

• The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.

  

  Anthony Clifford Grayling
  • World
  • Failure
  • Wise

• The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an almost infinite capacity for forming complicated and unworkable rules.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Men
  • Writing

• If all the good people were clever And all the clever people were good The world would be nicer than ever We thought that it possibly could. But somehow, 'tis seldom or ner The two hit it off as they should The good are so harsh to the clever The clever so rude to the good!

  

  Elizabeth Wordsworth
  • World
  • Rude
  • Hit