Kin Hubbard Quotes

Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.

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• When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Done
  • Role
  • Shakespeare

• From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Book
  • Age
  • Wine

• Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Cool
  • Star
  • Big

• I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Up
  • Sports

• I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Become

• My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Great
  • Long

• When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Long
  • Me
  • Short

• My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Handle

• We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • World
  • Nature
  • Future

• My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Interest
  • Duty
  • Less

• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Earth
  • Destiny
  • Own

• I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Great
  • Music
  • Think

• Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Home

• The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

  

  Pasquier Quesnel
  • Truth
  • Only
  • Does

• I am happy in Paris.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Happy
  • Paris

• Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

  

  Quintilian
  • Wish
  • Wise
  • Fools

• Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Bridge
  • Ice

• The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long for in the silence of our inner solitude.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Long
  • Silence
  • Solitude

• I'm very sensual and very rhythm-oriented and into poetry. Women can feel that.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Feels
  • Rhythm
  • Sensual

• When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Book
  • Criticism

• The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Body
  • Movies

• All of the stuff I can't afford to do on a TV budget, I just put into the comic book because you're really only limited in a comic by your artist's imagination.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
  • Book
  • Imagination

• Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.

  

  Kin Hubbard
  • People