Alexander Pope Quotes

Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

Alexander Pope

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• My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • People
  • Parents
  • Team

• The harder I work, the luckier I get.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Work
  • Harder
  • Luckier

• I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Real

• To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Done
  • Art
  • True

• Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Society
  • Yes

• The settlers do not have a problem with the leftists but, rather, with Israelis who like settlers: Israelis who are unconcerned by the fact that national-religious youngsters are overtaking our elite units. Such Israelis actually appreciate the settlers for that.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Problem
  • Like
  • Religious

• There's also a dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party. What do I mean by that? What I mean by that is they still sort of look down on minorities.

  

  Colin Powell
  • Party
  • Dark

• In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.

  

  David Herbert Donald
  • Religious
  • Prayer

• I went to Northwestern in Chicago, in Evanston, and then I ended up trickling down in Chicago theater. I did a bunch of plays, but I was non-equity. For a lot of people, non-equity means you're not yet professional. But for me, if you're in a mainstream theater, you're doing something real.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• When I started playing the bass, I became kind of fascinated by it and started investigating various styles of bass playing, and I was really struck with funk music, mainly American funk music - Stanley Clarke, Funkadelic and that kind of stuff. That comes out in a couple of songs like 'Barbarism Begins at Home.'

  

  Andy Rourke Pretenders
  • Music
  • Home
  • American

• When the FDA forces an old drug off the market, patients have very little say in the matter. Patients have even less of a say when the FDA chooses not to approve a new drug. Instead, we are supposed to rely on the FDA's judgment and be grateful. But can the FDA really make a choice that is appropriate for everyone? Of course not.

  

  Alex Tabarrok
  • Drug

• Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • School
  • Home
  • Wife

• I think all actors - they'll hate me for saying this - but we are babies. We like to be loved, and we'll do anything if we're loved.

  

  Anjelica Huston
  • Hate

• I'd always wanted to write crime fiction. I loved Nancy Drew.

  

  Marcia Clark

• There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is.

  

  Christine Ebersole
  • Power

• You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • School

• Women now have to put so much attention into their careers, and not many families can pull off a single income.

  

  Jordana Spiro
  • Women
  • Attention
  • Single

• There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment. When a man is contented he goes to sleep. Voltaire had no chance to be contented, and so he wrote eternally and unceasingly, more than any other man in the history of the world.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • World
  • History
  • Sleep

• I feel that I have fulfilled the part of my duty that tied me to the Cuban revolution in its territory, and I say farewell to you, to the comrades, to your people, who now are mine.

  

  Che Guevara
  • People
  • Revolution
  • Farewell

• Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.

  

  Augustus
  • Marriage
  • Keep
  • Farewell

• Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Kind
  • Spirit
  • Comfort

• Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Farewell