Cole Porter Quotes

This rule I propose, Always have an ace in the hole. Always try to arrive at Having an ace some place private. Always have an ace in the hole.

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• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Friends

• A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • World
  • True
  • Friend

• Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • Reveal

• I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Myself
  • Dying
  • Unknown

• Your kids are going to do well in the workplace of the future if they can bring creativity, if they can bring some innovation, if they can bring some entrepreneurialism.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Kids
  • Future
  • Creativity

• I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Love
  • Amazing
  • Director

• No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Christian
  • Civilization

• I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Movie
  • Drama
  • Will

• The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mind
  • Reading
  • Cool

• I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • Work
  • Done
  • Economics

• I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.

  

  La Monte Young
  • Think
  • Influence
  • Fact

• If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Friends
  • Friend
  • Hand

• I'm a person who has a lot of energy. So, yes, I don't really stop to rest or de-stress. I just keep going. I figure that if you don't stop, then you'll never notice how tired you are.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Energy
  • Stop
  • Rest

• It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Blue

• I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Music
  • Learning
  • King

• I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Girl
  • Lunch
  • Likes

• It may not matter to anybody now, but when you go out there and perform on the field, that's what matters.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • May
  • Matter
  • Now

• I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Musician
  • Jazz
  • Stepfather

• I went to Yale's drama school for theater, so we did tons of Shakespeare; then, I got out of school and said, 'OK, it will be Shakespeare,' and it was like, 'Or, it will be commercials and soaps.'

  

  Kristen Connolly
  • School
  • Drama

• Thanks to Twitter, I learn about the revolutions in the Middle East via Arab activists and writers, not just from American foreign correspondents.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • American
  • Thanks

• I am neither such a great songwriter or such a great singer that the world must hear my album. There's just no point to make.

  

  Anna Kendrick
  • World
  • Great

• You would never dream of going on to play a scene in front of an audience at least without having rehearsed it. But you do somehow in front of a camera.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Dream
  • Play
  • Scene

• It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think?

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Loves
  • Stomach
  • Heartbroken

• This rule I propose, Always have an ace in the hole. Always try to arrive at Having an ace some place private. Always have an ace in the hole.

  

  Cole Porter