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

• If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are. It doesn't matter if you're 12: if you draw, you draw. If you're 85 and you paint, you paint.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Work

• "Magna Carta is the Law: Let the King look out." So it has always been with tyrants among our own people: when the King was tyrant, let him look out. And it has always been the same, and will be the same, whether the tyrant be the Barons, whether the tyrant be the Church, whether he be demagogue or dictator - let them look out.

  

  Stanley Baldwin
  • Law
  • Church
  • Looks

• Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Society
  • Best
  • Value

• I've had a great time doing it - being able to say yes to a couple of amazing shows.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Amazing

• The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.

  

  James Marsden
  • Character

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

  

  Alexander Woollcott