W. C. Fields Quotes

There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.

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• I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Career
  • Suffering
  • Enjoy

• All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Friends
  • You
  • Like

• I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Believe
  • Opportunity
  • Old

• In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Age
  • Actress
  • Hollyweird

• I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Fun

• The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • God
  • Sense
  • Enthusiasm

• In the end, crime doesn't pay.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • End
  • Crime
  • In The End

• Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Dinner
  • Table
  • Electricity

• I always have the impression that I write the same book.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Book
  • Write
  • Same

• I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Support
  • Health

• Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • American
  • Hours
  • Heard

• My sister is not a public person, so I don't think it's right to discuss her.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Person
  • Right
  • Sister

• When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Land
  • Over
  • Edge

• One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Age
  • Problem
  • Patience

• Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Romantic

• Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Good
  • Art
  • Bad

• We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • History
  • Doubt
  • Unique

• 2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically.

  

  LaToya London
  • House
  • Mean
  • Order

• No two notes are ever the same volume. With the guitar, you really have to model in your mind this wider thing; you're trying to create the illusion of a bigger dynamic range.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Model

• Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• She hugged the offender, and forgave the offense:Sex to the last.

  

  John Dryden
  • She
  • Sex

• The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits of half-truth and disinformation which they do tell us. These are already pre-digested, and then are sicked up as little gobbits of authorised spew. The columns of defense correspondents in the establishment sheets serve as the spittoons.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Truth

• There's something about her," Caire said in a low voice. "She cares for everyone about her, yet neglects herself. I want to be the one who cares for her.

  

  Elizabeth Hoyt
  • Care
  • Voice
  • Said

• There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Children
  • Food
  • Firsts