Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
Natasha Little
-
The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
Sam Donaldson
-
My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.
Ed Begley, Jr.
-
With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.
Kat Dahlia
-
Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
Edmund White
-
Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
Laura Schlessinger
-
This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
Paris Hilton
-
When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
Aaron Neville
-
I've found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It's sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.
Patricia Heaton
-
I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
B. B. King
-
Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
Fidel Castro
-
Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
Fernando Flores
-
Honestly, the only way Garden State could have been better was if I played every character. I'm awesome.
Zach Braff
-
A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today's expensively under-educated generation.
Thomas Sowell
-
Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
Imran Amed
-
I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God.
John Wesley
-
Change marriage and you change the world. Convince people that government, not God, lays down the rules for marriage, and they will believe more strongly that they determine right and wrong, that not even the world's rulers are subject to a higher authority.
R. C. Sproul
-
Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.
Henry David Thoreau