Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.Charles Caleb Colton
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
Patrick Kane -
People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers -
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
Oscar Wilde -
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
Carl Hiaasen -
Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
Sam Altman
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When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'
Taylor Swift -
I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
Ramon Rodriguez -
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
Naguib Mahfouz -
I married beneath me, all women do.
Nancy Astor -
Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.
Victor Ponta
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
T. E. Hulme -
No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
Naima Adedapo -
I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
R. Lee Ermey -
Everything I am, everything I've been allowed to do, career-wise, has come out of the opportunity I had with 'Cheers'. I think it's one of the funniest shows ever. They are some of my best friends.
Ted Danson -
The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.
Lafcadio Hearn -
Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.
Irving Penn
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I'm trying to write songs to appeal to everybody.
Jon Pardi -
The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
I like lots of things. But there are three things I like most. Love, love and love.
Anita Ekberg -
Sometimes, if you really don't know how you feel about a topic, reading how both sides argue it can help.
Elayne Boosler -
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
Charles Caleb Colton