Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes

The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

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• Conformity is dangerous.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Dangerous
  • Conformity

• The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Remember

• History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Cat
  • Down
  • Clever

• The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Play
  • Tennis

• He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.

  

  Pat Cash
  • Time
  • Athlete
  • Just

• I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Life
  • Work
  • Freedom

• And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Why

• There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • Together
  • Myself

• I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Great
  • Love
  • Yourself

• People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Day
  • Fall

• Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-and-bone man ever called at their houses. The truth of the matter was that in less than a week I was well dressed from head to foot, all of these things being voluntary offerings, when in quest of eatables.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Summer

• I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Think
  • Me
  • Play

• If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Book
  • Man
  • Bible

• I was the first person in the world to audition for 'The Hobbit'. The casting director told me that when I went in. That's a lot of pressure, isn't it? The first person in the world.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • World
  • Me
  • Pressure

• The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Best
  • Film
  • Director

• If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.

  

  Ice T
  • Player
  • Understand
  • Need

• Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • People
  • King
  • Civil Rights

• So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

  

  Phil Lesh Grateful Dead
  • Children
  • Education
  • Support

• I think, when I was a young lawyer starting out, I was so determined to prove that I was as good as the men and that I could be given the same opportunities as the men, and it wouldn't make any difference at all that I was a woman. But actually, looking back on it now, I did do things that I wouldn't recommend to other women at all.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I will not cut benefits. I want to enhance benefits for low-income workers and for women who have been disadvantaged by the current Social Security system.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Women
  • Benefits
  • Benefit

• I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• Because it is... far slower than Lamarckian evolution, biological evolution is always quickly outrun by cultural change.

  

  E. O. Wilson

• The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Women
  • Smile
  • Draws