Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.

  

  Kate Dickie
  • See
  • Crying
  • Turn

• I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • Children
  • Hands
  • Reward

• Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Work
  • Best
  • Doing

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• I don't want to be a bust.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Want
  • Bust

• I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Desire
  • Someone
  • Chef

• I don't believe in strong-arming people.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Believe
  • Strong

• Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Beautiful
  • Question
  • Always

• It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Love
  • Joy

• Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Long
  • May
  • Hope

• Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Time
  • Present

• The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Together

• As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Friends
  • Kid
  • Questions

• I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Up
  • Feeling

• Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Ingenuity
  • Castro

• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Simple

• It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Political
  • Story
  • Loss

• People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• I feel the president is ignoring the opinion of many in the U.S. and alienating the rest of the world. My comments were made in frustration, and one of the privileges of being an American is you are free to voice your own point of view.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • World
  • American
  • Free

• Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!

  

  Dita Von Teese
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Bad

• The poetical character... is not itself - it has no self - it is every thing and nothing - It has no character - it enjoys light and shade; it lives in gusto, be it fair or foul, high or low, rich or poor, mean or elevated. - It has as much delight in conceiving an Iago as an Imogen. What shocks the virtuous philospher, delights the camelion poet.

  

  John Keats
  • Character
  • High
  • Light

• Thank you... I deserve that. I'm really good. I'm one of the best. Actually, I'm the best, currently ranked number one in the world. So buckle up. You guys are in for a treat. Oh, 19,000 people, This is awesome. Thank you. Seriously, don't look around. It's 19,000. People watching on tv, they never know. They're so stupid. That's why they watch tv.

  

  Daniel Tosh
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Character
  • Learning