Anthony Trollope Quotes

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

Anthony Trollope

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• The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Fun
  • You
  • Doing

• The thing about the Nobel ceremony is that for a whole week, you get treated like a superstar. You get driven everywhere. You have minders who always make sure you get where you're going. And you always get into the back seat of the limo.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • You
  • Always
  • Week

• We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Value

• Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Home
  • I Can
  • Los Angeles

• I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Me
  • Fight
  • Down

• A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Book
  • Night
  • Stand

• As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Children
  • Change
  • Reading

• I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Being

• But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.

  

  Raekwon
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Fans

• Cervantes married in 1584, when he was thirty-seven and Catalina was nineteen. The marriage lasted thirty years, but Cervantes may have spent only about half of them with his wife.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • May
  • Wife
  • Marriage

• I think of myself as a content creator and, hopefully one day, a content enabler and supporter of others, so that's what my immediate and hopefully future journey is.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Future
  • Day
  • Journey

• I'm not classically trained or anything, but I'll rip up a dance floor.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Up
  • Dance
  • Rip

• Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.

  

  Jack Kelley
  • Country
  • You
  • City

• If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Know
  • Annoyed
  • Rage

• If you look at my bookings, they've gone down each season. That's something I'm trying to keep improving. On the pitch you don't want any silly bookings.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Trying
  • Silly
  • Season

• Something theoretical in the past may become evident and established in the present or in the future. It is a self-evident fact that creation has an innate tendency towards perfection, and it is through this that creation is bound to the law of development or gradual perfection.

  

  Said Nursi
  • May
  • Future
  • Past

• It's interesting that some people reading the comics see Scott Pilgrim as a blank slate in that they like to imagine themselves as Scott Pilgrim, so it's interesting that there are two kind of schools of thought about the character. One is, like, Scott Pilgrim is awesome. The second is Scott Pilgrim believes himself to be awesome.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Character
  • Interesting

• What's the point of staying sober?

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Point
  • Sober
  • Staying

• It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Justice
  • Humanity

• I always felt that, for me, as a woman, I always had to wait around. In all other arenas, I was ambitious and a go-getter, but when it came to dating, I wasn't supposed to go after what I wanted.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Always
  • Woman
  • Dating

• When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'

  

  Vince Cable
  • Job
  • Future
  • Chance

• It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat.

  

  Jim Saxton
  • Opinion
  • Mistake

• What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.

  

  Annette O'Toole
  • Hope

• Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

  

  Anthony Trollope