Henry David Thoreau Quotes

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms, and did my duty faithfully, though I never received one cent for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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• I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • American
  • Attention
  • Star

• I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • House
  • Years
  • Over

• I don't put a ton of time into my on-stage style, largely because I'm dumb about clothes. But I have friends who are very smart about clothes, and they teach me things. For the show, I'm mainly concerned with feeling comfortable, being able to jump around and get wild.

  

  K. Flay
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Feeling

• If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Time
  • Done
  • Party

• When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Support
  • Emotional

• Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Someone
  • Balls
  • Catch

• Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off each other.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Fun
  • You
  • Group

• I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Time
  • America
  • Girl

• Sometimes change is good. Although I didn't want to leave.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Good
  • Want
  • Change

• I recurred on 'Grey's Anatomy' for three years, and at the same time, I recurred for eight episodes on 'Rescue Me'. And I'd recurred for nine episodes on 'The Practice'. Frankly, the guest star is often the most compelling character.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Time
  • Character
  • Star

• There are a lot of people who don't want things like fashion weeks to happen.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • People
  • Want
  • Fashion

• I definitely didn't want to be that person that came out and was like, 'O.K. I'm going to lead every parade.'

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Want
  • Like
  • Lead

• I'm superconscious of not putting chemicals on my skin, like parabens and sulfates.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Like
  • Skin
  • Chemicals

• Marriage helps young couples to raise themselves towards God. The bond of marriage unites two souls so firmly that though they are physically two separate entities, their souls are merged into one harmonious whole.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • God
  • Marriage
  • Young

• Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Home
  • Heaven
  • Nirvana

• Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses

  

  Albert Pike
  • Great
  • Justice

• The chairs and tables around us which broadcast to us incessantly those signals which affect our sight and touch cannot in their nature be like unto the signals or to the sensations which the signals awake at the end of their journey.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Nature
  • Journey

• The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.

  

  Aldous Huxley

• I was totally picked on, but look at me now! I was definitely picked on by boys and girls. I was really lanky and skinny and the boys would say, 'Turn sideways and stick out your tongue, you look like a zipper.'

  

  Krysten Ritter

• I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

  

  James Brown
  • Music
  • Names
  • Tunes

• I just hate getting my hair cut.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Hate
  • Hair

• Once I was walking from The Mercer in New York - because otherwise I don't walk anywhere - and this woman paparazzo who was following me fell over a fire hydrant and her whole tooth went through her lip. I leant over her, saying, 'Are you all right?' and she was still taking pictures.

  

  Kate Moss
  • She
  • Woman
  • Fire

• The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you recognize their importance, and recognize it sincerely.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Truth

• For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms, and did my duty faithfully, though I never received one cent for it.

  

  Henry David Thoreau