Edwin Booth Quotes

Time has not grown so very old since the most prominent members of our profession, though admired by the public eye, and lauded by its tongue, were socially, viewed askance, and regarded as 'merely players.'

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• You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Up
  • Music
  • City

• I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Information
  • Conversation
  • Valuable

• Pictures must not be too picturesque.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Art
  • Pictures
  • Too

• Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Power
  • Me
  • Virtue

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Women
  • Government
  • Politics

• The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • Teach
  • Busy

• I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Think

• What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Romantic

• In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Moral
  • Thought

• Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Real
  • Chicago
  • Real estate

• You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Book
  • Happiness

• I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

  

  Zach Braff
  • School
  • Learn
  • Movies

• I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Proud

• Buildings are forms of performances.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Buildings
  • Forms

• I will forever be proud to call myself a Bruin and will never forget the memories that were made here.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Proud
  • Myself
  • Forever

• Valuation depends on several factors. From an investor angle, they look at leadership position, management, and what the company's offerings are. I think these three things got 5/5 for a company like Flipkart, and that is what is driving valuations and growth.

  

  Sachin Bansal
  • Growth
  • Leadership
  • Driving

• When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.

  

  R. Kelly
  • You
  • Church
  • Laugh

• I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence falling to pieces.

  

  Alice Oswald
  • Latin
  • Greek

• Am I morally obligated to defend the president every time somebody says something bad or controversial about him? I don't think so!

  

  Donald Trump
  • Time
  • Bad

• You can never go wrong betting on Americans' bad eating habits. So I've made a ton investing in all fast food chains, while at the same time investing in Dockers, spandex, Spanx, and sweatpants. Basically, anything with an elastic waistband is a goldmine.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Food

• In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • War
  • Secret
  • Event

• I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what's on the inside edge of the transparent one.

  

  Ben Crenshaw
  • Real
  • Eyes

• Time has not grown so very old since the most prominent members of our profession, though admired by the public eye, and lauded by its tongue, were socially, viewed askance, and regarded as 'merely players.'

  

  Edwin Booth
  • Time