Colley Cibber Quotes
I 've lately had two spidersCrawling upon my startled hopes.Now though thy friendly hand has brush'd 'em from me,Yet still they crawl offensive to my eyes:I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em.
Quotes to Explore
-
In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
-
My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.
-
I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
-
The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.
-
I love sparkly eyes for the holidays, especially New Year's Eve.
-
Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
-
I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'
-
I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.
-
Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.
-
Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
-
Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.
-
The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
-
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
-
I'm pretty much a dinosaur in the studio. I like things hand-drawn, even today. The story artists use Cintiqs, but I'm the only person who hasn't completely converted to computers. I like the Cintiq, but there's something about the raw emotional power of using paper and pencil.
-
Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.
-
I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.
-
Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. I really enjoy being able to look through different styles you can find and how eclectic the vintage store vibe is.
-
Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.
-
The first thing I always look at on a girl is her eyes.
-
Christ's finished sacrifice was sufficient. By participating in the mass, Roman Catholics are calling Him a liar! It's an abomination in the eyes of God.
-
Blue eyes wash off sometimes.
-
It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.
-
I remember when Joe Calzaghe fought Jeff Lacy, and there was all this hype about Lacy being some sort of unbeatable force, and Joe absolutely hammered him.
-
I 've lately had two spidersCrawling upon my startled hopes.Now though thy friendly hand has brush'd 'em from me,Yet still they crawl offensive to my eyes:I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em.
