King Solomon Quotes

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.

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• I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Different
  • Words
  • Years

• Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Country
  • Fun
  • Easy

• I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Book
  • Want
  • Start

• I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Nice
  • Found
  • Hiking

• For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Up
  • Me
  • Value

• I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Today
  • Reality
  • Everybody

• There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • People
  • Work
  • Action

• True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Life
  • True
  • Direction

• I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Myself
  • Need
  • Paper

• Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • New
  • Fault
  • Globalization

• As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Good
  • Want
  • Artist

• I try to eat healthy for the most part. When I cut weight, I cut pretty much everything out. I don't have protein when I cut weight other than what I might get from something like chicken breast. So I don't eat any extra protein, just because I'm trying to get the weight off. That's the only real diet I have.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Money
  • Class
  • Far

• A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

  

  Edmund Barton
  • People
  • Great
  • Education

• The whole thing with VR is that it doesn't matter, local versus networked gaming. The goal in virtual reality isn't to have people sit in the same room with headsets on.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • Reality
  • Goal

• I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Day
  • Always
  • Perform

• Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • May
  • Afghanistan
  • Sudan

• The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Best

• All art is at once surface and symbol.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Surface
  • Symbol

• I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership desk. I ended up, over a period of time, doubling the amount of membership revenue that came in through people entering the museum, so people would ask me to come and work for them.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The newest Ferrari of them all, the 458, the Italia. The GT3 was good, but nowhen near as good as this... almost nothing on Earth is as good as this... Set that something I've just told, involving Cameron Diaz... and some honey... then it comes that even that isn't as good as this.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • Good
  • Earth

• Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.

  

  C.P. Cavafy
  • People
  • Moments
  • Study

• Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.

  

  King Solomon
  • Wise