Alexander Pope Quotes

Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died.

Alexander Pope

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• Friendship
• Grief

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• Life in California is beautiful.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • California

• A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Power
  • Healing
  • Medical

• I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Character
  • Feel
  • Performance

• Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Work
  • May
  • Open-minded

• Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!

  

  Adam Lambert
  • You
  • Wait
  • Minute

• My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• 'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Live
  • Dream
  • Day

• I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writing

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • Done
  • Best

• I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Trying
  • Me
  • Going

• Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Marriage
  • Dialogue
  • Final

• George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Strong
  • Summer
  • Feminist

• I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.

  

  Harland Williams
  • People
  • Trying
  • Funny

• The magic of creation has always fascinated me.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • Always
  • Magic
  • Creation

• I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • People
  • Think
  • Science

• When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, 'How good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity.'

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• There's just certain accents that you can and can't do. And the Scottish accent was one that came quite naturally to me, which is weird because I have no one in my life who's Scottish.

  

  Nell Hudson
  • Life
  • Weird
  • Certain

• Most of the people who fail in what they want to accomplish do so because they underestimate who they are. When they don’t believe they can succeed at something, they have little chance.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Chance
  • Succeed
  • Fail

• You should always carry string, according to my archaeologist father, because then you could at least make a trap to catch animals to survive. According to my grandmother, it was clean underwear.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Father
  • Grandmother
  • Animals

• I grew up with a saying: 'It doesn't matter what you wear or where you go, but your hair always has to be brushed.' So in Italy, we come from that kind of culture - where how you present yourself is important.

  

  Mariacarla Boscono
  • Up
  • Important
  • Culture

• Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Father
  • Joy
  • Friendship