Ernest Belfort Bax Quotes
Women in general are not interested in questions of principle as such, but at most only in so far as they affect particular personalities. They require the dramatic element to evoke their interest. With many men, on the contrary, though this element of course enhances interest, it is not the indispensable condition of interest.
Ernest Belfort Bax
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
Ira Glass
One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
Yohan Blake
I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
Igor Stravinsky
If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
Ted Williams
The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
Adam Davidson
True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
Ian Mcewan
I keep my eyes open. I pay attention to how different types of people express their personal style, how they put their clothes together.
Cam Newton
Thats when you know youve found somebody special. When you can just shut the f**k up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.
Uma Thurman
I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.
William Shatner
If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
William Shakespeare
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
Baruch Spinoza
Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.
Vincent Van Gogh