Cole Porter Quotes

Electric eels I might add do it, Though it shocks 'em I know...

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• Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Fabulous

• 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

• I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Father
  • Man
  • Amazing

• I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Attention
  • Stories

• I always loved going to Hawai'i; it was very, very special.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Special

• It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mind
  • Said
  • Fact

• I think I am less of a prankster and more of a jokester.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Jokester
  • Prankster

• Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Heart
  • Sick
  • Temptation

• Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.

  

  Veronica Franco
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Death

• Business people across the world are seeing the possibility of Donald Trump being president, and this is a big thing that I believe is inspiring people to put money here in America instead of Germany or other places where we have lot of things going on.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• We are a country that lacks riches. The Jewish brain, that's what we have. Everything that we've had and will have in this country is the direct and clear product of higher education. If we harm this system, we will drastically decline and cease to exist.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Country
  • Education
  • Brain

• I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Energy

• They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Children
  • Will

• Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • You
  • Feel
  • How

• I'd rather share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Myself
  • Star
  • Glory

• I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Family
  • Control
  • Better

• Western governments have generally tried to contain genocide by appeasing its architects. But the sad record of the last century shows that the walls the United States tries to build around genocidal societies almost inevitably shatter.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Sad
  • Last
  • Walls

• I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Good
  • Think
  • Promise

• Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Retirement

• My fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Poppy, had us each write a 'novel,' whatever that meant to us. It must have been 10 pages long, and we bound it and colored the front. And she wrote on mine, 'I can't wait till your real novel comes out. Give me a call.'

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
  • Long
  • Real
  • She

• Once every 12 years there is a unique opportunity to reinforce the bonds between Mexico and the United States, when our presidential election cycles coincide.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Opportunity
  • Unique
  • Presidential

• The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Up
  • Country
  • Help

• Electric eels I might add do it, Though it shocks 'em I know...

  

  Cole Porter