Denis Fonvizin Quotes

It is far more honest to be undeservedly ignored than to be honoured without merit.

Denis Fonvizin

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• I don't think what I look like is relevant.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Think
  • Like
  • Look

• Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • Life
  • Different
  • Long

• I think women have the right to consult their own wishes, needs, and capacities and produce only loved, wanted children they can care for - or even no children at all. I think we would all be better off as a society if we respected women's ability to make these decisions for themselves and concentrated on caring well for the born.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Children
  • Society

• My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Practice

• There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I'm on my way to that mountain.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Myself
  • Genius
  • Mountain

• Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Story

• I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Language

• The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Time
  • Future
  • Lost

• Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Sometimes
  • Working
  • Skills

• It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.

  

  Barbara Hambly
  • Up
  • Love
  • Books

• Sometimes parents squash students' interests because they are afraid of science or math. So they don't participate. You don't have to know the answers to engage kids; you just have to let them know it's important.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Parents

• To be honest, I've been a passionate advocate for the value of tech to help us connect to people in real and emotional ways - and stick up for myself when people say, 'Sklar! Stop tweeting!'

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.

  

  Ken Marino
  • Comedy

• They stood and listened, arms around each other for comfort, as the sound washed over them. It reverberated in the marrow of their bones, sung high and sweet, heartbreakingly mournful, quick as a jig, slow as the saddest air. Their hearts swelled with its beauty, its mystery. With all it revealed, and all that it hid.

  

  Charles de Lint
  • High
  • Air
  • Sweet

• I think it was a modest thing I did (Fahrenheit 9/11) ... this is an election year ... I'm not telling them how to vote. I'm saying get information about the issues ... at first there's just silence, then there's 'Yeah!' and then there's 'Boo' ... I have never seen a reaction like this, in all my years of touring ... Clear Channel can't threaten to not play my records because they are not going to play them anyway.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Silence
  • Information
  • Election

• When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Writers
  • Poets
  • Vinicius de Moraes

• There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • World
  • Agreement
  • Abhorrent

• We created a whole lot of millionaires to boot. Businesses did just fine. And you know there are plenty of patriotic, successful Americans all across the country -- I meet them every day -- who'd be willing to make this contribution again because they understand there is such a thing as the common good. They understand that we're in this thing together.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Country
  • Together

• We travel a lot and don't get enough time to spend with our family, and so we have to take our pictures, videos, also bother about things like which are the HD quality phones. So I'm very much a part of these typical things.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Time
  • Family
  • Quality

• The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Soul
  • Language
  • Writings

• You don’t have to fit the normal, standard model of how a person should look, think, talk and create in order to succeed.

  

  Netta
  • Look
  • Create
  • Succeed

• To be honest the work that a producer does is work that I've done for most of my working life. It's work that I started to do, for example, when I worked with Sally Potter on Orlando. We developed it together over five years.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Done
  • Together
  • Honest

• I am noticing that we're getting more and more people - and I don't know how to handle this - who come to me saying, "Would you pray for my son? Would you pray for my daughter?" I've been saying, "Pray for them yourself." But they don't want that because they think I've got something that's greater than what they have. I keep saying, "I don't! Not really. I got the title 'minister; but I don't want to exploit you. You do it, too." I think the way to solve it is to do it together. We're going to pray in community, you see?

  

  Cecil Williams
  • People
  • Together
  • Community

• It is far more honest to be undeservedly ignored than to be honoured without merit.

  

  Denis Fonvizin
  • Honest
  • Merit
  • Honoured