Alexander Woollcott Quotes

All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

Alexander Woollcott

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• With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Country
  • Me

• I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • War
  • Choice
  • Reach

• When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Working

• I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • History
  • End
  • Conflict

• If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Work
  • Challenge
  • Goals

• Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Want
  • Hand

• Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • People
  • Live
  • Die

• A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.'

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Game
  • Me
  • King

• It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

  

  Dale Turner
  • Character
  • Respect
  • Mistake

• I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Trust
  • Wrong
  • Instincts

• Creating a nation requires the will of the people!

  

  Edmund Barton
  • People
  • Nation
  • Creating

• When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. We used to make these silly, stupid short films, which, looking back now, were probably horrible.

  

  Iain De Caestecker
  • Brother
  • Stupid
  • Silly

• All religious believers should be licensed to make sure that they are competent to hold opinions and viewpoints and that they don't believe in just any old thing, such as creationism or a flat tax.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Believe
  • Religious
  • Opinions

• Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

  

  Larry David
  • Bad
  • Sometimes
  • Birds

• Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor!

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Nature
  • Alien

• A person is a process, one that leads to death...

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Death

• I wasn't recommending that we make the links for them, only provide them with the tools to do so if they want to take the gamble (or the gambol).

  

  Larry Wall

• True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Friends
  • True

• Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Good
  • Writing
  • May

• The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again, to others not necessarily Jews, perpetrated by others, not necessarily Germans. We are all possible victims, possible perpetrators, possible bystanders.

  

  Yehuda Bauer
  • May
  • Holocaust
  • Bystanders

• The spread of personal ownership is in harmony with the deepest instincts of the British people. Few changes have done more to create one nation.

  

  Nigel Lawson
  • Harmony
  • Nations
  • Instinct

• When there's somebody racing side-by-side, when somebody's right next to me and they're pushing and we're both tired, we're both fatigued, I want to be able to beat them mentally.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Tired
  • Beat
  • Racing

• All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

  

  Alexander Woollcott