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Robert Benchley Quotes

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:50:14 +0000

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. - View Quote Details on A great many people have come up to me and…
Death ends a life, not a relationship. - View Quote Details on Death ends a life, not a relationship.
Anyone will be glad to admit that he knows nothing about beagling, or the Chinese stock market, or ballistics, but there is not a man or woman alive who does not claim to know how to cure hiccoughs. - View Quote Details on Anyone will be glad to admit that he knows nothing…
I don’t want to be an alarmist, but I think that the Younger Generation is up to something…. I base my apprehension on nothing more definite than the fact that they are always coming in and going out of the house, without any apparent reason. - View Quote Details on I don’t want to be an alarmist, but I think…
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. - View Quote Details on The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per…
Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other. - View Quote Details on Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are…
Streets flooded. Please advise. (telegram to his editor upon arrival in Venice ) - View Quote Details on Streets flooded. Please advise. (telegram to his editor upon arrival…
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. - View Quote Details on There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people…
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. - View Quote Details on Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I…
The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and that in the High School hall…. The scales of sophistication are struck from your eyes and you see in the circus a gathering of men and women who are able to do things as a matter of course which you couldn’t do if your life depended on it. - View Quote Details on The way to go to the circus, however, is with…
A baby is shown sitting on the floor. He appears to be about a year and a half old. Incidentally, he is a very plain baby. Strewn about him on the floor are the toys that he has been playing with. There are a ball, a rattle, a ring, a doll, a bell and a pair of roller-skates. Evidently, the candidate is supposed to be aghast at the roller-skates in the possession of such a small child.
The man who drew that picture had evidently never furnished playthings for a small child. I can imagine nothing that would delight a child of a year and a half more than a pair of roller-skates to chew and spin and hit himself in the face with. They could also be dropped on Daddy when Daddy was lying on the floor in an attempt to be sociable. Of all the toys arranged before the child, the roller-skates are the most logical…. That is my great trouble in taking tests and examinations of any kind. I always want to argue with the examiner, because the examiner is always so obviously wrong. - View Quote Details on A baby is shown sitting on the floor. He appears…
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as it stands. - View Quote Details on The surest way to make a monkey of a man…
There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are thinking of Bucharest, and there is no such place as Bucharest, either. - View Quote Details on There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are…
So who’s in a hurry? - View Quote Details on So who’s in a hurry?
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author’s soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. - View Quote Details on Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author’s…
The only cure for a real hangover is death. - View Quote Details on The only cure for a real hangover is death.

About Robert Benchley

Robert Charles Benchley (1889-09-15 – 1945-11-21 ) was an American humorist, critic and actor.

Five Easy Pieces Quotes

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:10:11 +0000

Catherine Van Oost: You’re a strange person, Robert. I mean, what will you come to? If a person has no love for himself, no respect for himself, no love of his friends, family, work, something - how can he ask for love in return? I mean, why should he ask for it? - View Quote Details on Catherine Van Oost: You’re a strange person, Robert. I mean,…
[to Dupea] I’ll go out with you, or I’ll stay in with you, or I’ll do anything that you like for me to do, if you tell me that you love me. - View Quote Details on [to Dupea] I’ll go out with you, or I’ll stay…
I move around a lot, not because I’m looking for anything really, but ’cause I’m getting away from things that get bad if I stay. - View Quote Details on I move around a lot, not because I’m looking for…
[to his father] I don’t know if you’d be particularly interested in hearing anything about me. My life, I mean… Most of it doesn’t add up to much… that I could relate as a way of life that you’d approve of…I’d like to be able to tell you why, but I don’t really…I mean, I move around a lot because things tend to get bad when I stay. And I’m looking…for auspicious beginnings, I guess…I’m trying to, you know, imagine your half of this conversation…My feeling is, that if you could talk, we probably wouldn’t be talking. That’s pretty much how it got to be before… I left…Are you all right? I don’t know what to say…Tita suggested that we try to…I don’t know. I think that she…seems to feel we’ve got…some understanding to reach…She totally denies the fact that we were never that comfortable with each other to begin with…The best that I can do, is apologize. We both know that I was never really that good at it, anyway…I’m sorry it didn’t work out. - View Quote Details on [to his father] I don’t know if you’d be particularly…
There isn’t anybody gonna look after you AND love you, as good as I do. - View Quote Details on There isn’t anybody gonna look after you AND love you,…
Palm Apodaca: People. Animals are not like that. They’re always cleaning themselves. Did you ever see, umm… pigeons? Well, he’s always picking on himself and his friends. They’re always picking bugs out of their hair all the time. Monkeys too. Except they do something out in the open that I don’t go for. - View Quote Details on Palm Apodaca: People. Animals are not like that. They’re always…
Betty: When I was four, just four years old, I went to my mother and I said, “What’s this hole in my chin?” - I saw this dimple in my chin in the mirror, and didn’t know what it was. And my mother said - get what my mother says - she says, “When you’re born, you go on a assembly line past God, and if He likes you, He says, [grabs her cheeks with both her hands] “You cute little thing!” and you get dimples there. And if He doesn’t like you, He goes, [presses one finger on her chin] “Go away.” So about six months later, my mother found me saying my prayers, and I was going, [holds one hand over her chin] “Now I lay me down to sleep…” My mother says, “What are you covering up your chin for?” And I said, “Because if I cover up the hole, maybe He’ll listen to me.” - View Quote Details on Betty: When I was four, just four years old, I…
I said don’t point at her, you pompous celibate! - View Quote Details on I said don’t point at her, you pompous celibate!

About Five Easy Pieces

Five Easy Pieces is a 1970 film about a trashy oil rigger who returns home to comfort his dying father, where he is confronted with the past he ran away from: a successful career as a classical pianist. Directed by Bob Rafelson. Written by Carole Eastman and Bob Rafelson. He Rode The Fast Lane On The Road To Nowhere.

Five Easy Pieces Cast

Susan Anspach - Catherine Van Oost
Richard Stahl - Recording Engineer
Billy Green Bush - Elton
Fannie Flagg - Stoney
Marlena MacGuire - Twinky
Karen Black - Rayette Dipesto
Lorna Thayer - Waitress
Toni Basil - Terry Grouse
Sally Struthers - Betty
Lois Smith - Partita Dupea
Helena Kallianiotes - Palm Apodaca
Jack Nicholson - Robert ‘Bobby’ Eroica Dupea

Bob Saget Quotes

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:50:04 +0000

There was this whole middle time that only Chris Rock came out of, you know, 10 years ago it was Chris and a few other people, but that’s about it. Chris is in a class of his own; I don’t see another comedian who I put in high regard as him. - View Quote Details on There was this whole middle time that only Chris Rock…
I’m doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it’s fantastic and it makes me very happy. I’m dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I’m working on a new tv show for cable and it’s not set up yet. - View Quote Details on I’m doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts,…
Gilbert Gottfried ’s scene’s an amazing piece of video. Forgetting how foul it is, forgetting how you perceive filth. It was right after 9/11, and this guy is already feeling like ‘What does it matter, what does anything matter.’ And he’s a little bit nutty anyway. - View Quote Details on Gilbert Gottfried ’s scene’s an amazing piece of video. Forgetting…
I have a feeling I’m going to wake up one day and say ‘I can’t do dirty stuff anymore, I want to go all clean.’ I’ll do clean stuff too, I like to entertain people. Then they egged me on; we shot it at The Laugh Factory. - View Quote Details on I have a feeling I’m going to wake up one…
I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy. - View Quote Details on I think when you dissect a joke too much, you…
A couple people are absent that I love like Cosby and Seinfeld are not there, for obvious reasons, and Chris Rock doesn’t tell the joke. - View Quote Details on A couple people are absent that I love like Cosby…
Rock did a great job on the Oscars. I saw him working the set out before. The fact that people can’t tell if he killed or bombed is not a bad thing cause he didn’t bomb. He could have done a few things different, but the first time hosting the Oscars! Chris Rock hosting the Oscars! I like that! - View Quote Details on Rock did a great job on the Oscars. I saw…
I was on Entourage last week smoking a bong and making out with hookers and I did show them that before, cause it wasn’t a hard ‘r’ cause a lot of people are watching that show that they know, not my little one - she’s 12, but very sophisticated so it’s an unusual case. - View Quote Details on I was on Entourage last week smoking a bong and…
I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I’ve had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz’s play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months. - View Quote Details on I just did a play in New York which has…
The Comedy Store - all three rooms were filled with 800 people in the room. And during that time, all these guys and some women, but mostly guys who weren’t funny were doing stand up for a living; they weren’t accountants, they were making $30-$50 grand a year on the road, or more. - View Quote Details on The Comedy Store - all three rooms were filled with…
Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that’s really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation. - View Quote Details on Now people want what the movie was about, which is…
I don’t roll like that but I’ve never been with a hooker either. Yeah, that’s good to say in an interview cause I feel bad a little because people grew up watching me and that’s a little disturbing. - View Quote Details on I don’t roll like that but I’ve never been with…
It’s 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It’s enough people of substance that it makes you think of the people who aren’t there that are alive. - View Quote Details on It’s 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how…
I would actually go up during those; it was kind of scary for the people at first and then they were happy. Now, there’s a couple amazing people out on the road like Pablo Francisco and Dane Cook is out there and they’re building a huge audience with the craft of stand up comedy. - View Quote Details on I would actually go up during those; it was kind…
What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone’s ringing a lot more and I’ve got nine lines so when it doesn’t ring, it’s very frustrating. - View Quote Details on What I have now are good problems of trying to…
I think Desperate Housewives is a pretty good show, I watch it, I like it and I don’t love reality tv that much. I do watch some, I’ve got three daughters so we’ll watch the good stuff, the fun stuff. - View Quote Details on I think Desperate Housewives is a pretty good show, I…
Me and my wife used to argue about little things- my penis. - View Quote Details on Me and my wife used to argue about little things-…
I have three kids, the oldest is 18 and her friends are going to see The Aristocrats because they told her they’re going to see it, especially her guy friends. - View Quote Details on I have three kids, the oldest is 18 and her…

About Bob Saget

Robert Lane Saget (born 17 May 1956 ) is an American actor, stand-up comedian and game show host best known for his role as Danny Tanner in the ABC sitcom Full House from 1987 to 1995, as host of America’s Funniest Home Videos from 1989 to 1997 and as host of 1 vs. 100 since 2006.

William Pitt Quotes

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:00:22 +0000

William Augustus Pitt (c. 1728 – 1809), Eighteenth century British general. - View Quote Details on William Augustus Pitt (c. 1728 – 1809), Eighteenth century British…
William Pitt (Canada), inventor of the underwater cable ferry in the early 1900s - View Quote Details on William Pitt (Canada), inventor of the underwater cable ferry in…
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708–1778), Prime Minister of Great Britain 1766–1768; often known as William Pitt the Elder - View Quote Details on William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708–1778), Prime Minister of…
William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806), his son and Prime Minister of Great Britain (1783–1801) and (1804–1806) - View Quote Details on William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806), his son and Prime Minister…
William Pitt (singer), active in the 1980s - View Quote Details on William Pitt (singer), active in the 1980s
William Pitt (architect) (1855–1918), Australian 19th century architect - View Quote Details on William Pitt (architect) (1855–1918), Australian 19th century architect
William Baker Pitt (1856–c.1920), founder of Swindon Town F.C. and Catholic prebendary - View Quote Details on William Baker Pitt (1856–c.1920), founder of Swindon Town F.C. and…
Brad Pitt, Actor (Birth name William Bradley Pitt) - View Quote Details on Brad Pitt, Actor (Birth name William Bradley Pitt)
William Rivers Pitt (born 1971), left-wing American essayist - View Quote Details on William Rivers Pitt (born 1971), left-wing American essayist

Nigella Lawson Quotes

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:40:05 +0000

It wasn’t really a chat show, it was a magazine show. I looked at it as a summer job. As long as no one makes me interview a celeb again, I’ll be happy. It wasn’t what I signed up for but, of course, nowadays everyone likes celebs. I’m pretty bored of them, though. I wasn’t interested and couldn’t be bothered to pretend I was. - View Quote Details on It wasn’t really a chat show, it was a magazine…
I am greedy. I eat under stress. When you are eating, the rest of the world is tuned out. And when you tune back in you feel guilty about having been greedy and the rest of the world is still there, so you have to carry on eating! - View Quote Details on I am greedy. I eat under stress. When you are…
She has flawless skin, perfect white teeth, a voluptuous body, ample height and lots of lush, brown hair. And then there are those cookbooks, which have become international best sellers. She has become enough of an icon stateside to be profiled last year in People and Vanity Fair. - View Quote Details on She has flawless skin, perfect white teeth, a voluptuous body,…
If you looked up ‘multi-tasking’ in the dictionary, the words ‘Nigella Lawson’ would probably appear alongside. - View Quote Details on If you looked up ‘multi-tasking’ in the dictionary, the words…
We were stunned how petite she was in the flesh and she has the most beautiful skin. Not only that, she was nice, too. She arrived on time, no diva demands. She’s gorgeous. - View Quote Details on We were stunned how petite she was in the flesh…
She’s happy about what she looks like. She loves her food. Because she’s relaxed her true beauty comes out. - View Quote Details on She’s happy about what she looks like. She loves her…
Lawson’s sexy roundness mixed with her speed-demon technique, makes cooking dinner with Nigella look like a prelude to an orgy. - View Quote Details on Lawson’s sexy roundness mixed with her speed-demon technique, makes cooking…
Some people did take the domestic goddess title literally rather than ironically. It was about the pleasures of feeling like one rather than actually being one. - View Quote Details on Some people did take the domestic goddess title literally rather…
It’s not meant to be flirtatious. Listen, I don’t have a presenting style, I’m just me. I don’t have the talent to adopt a different persona. It’s intimate, not flirtatious. - View Quote Details on It’s not meant to be flirtatious. Listen, I don’t have…
I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble. - View Quote Details on I am always surprised when people read double entendres into…
My sister lives in New York and she was struck by how class-ridden the reviews were. Everyone had to mention that I’m posh. British people are obsessed by that. I said to John, ‘I’m not posh.’ Is my voice posh?” - View Quote Details on My sister lives in New York and she was struck…
It’s true that I wouldn’t have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of continuing our conversation. It’s also this Jewish thing of naming and remembering people, and I think there is a sense of keeping that side of life going. - View Quote Details on It’s true that I wouldn’t have written the first book…
I lurch from chaos to chaos. I can’t find my driving licence and my clothes are everywhere – cooking is the neatest thing I do. - View Quote Details on I lurch from chaos to chaos. I can’t find my…
There are two Christmas traditions I’ve inherited from my mother. One is the feeling that Christmas isn’t complete if you haven’t got a ham as well as a turkey. It means that the leftovers are much better. And in a curious way, despite the fact that we’re talking about Christmas and ham, it’s a very Jewish thing to want to provide a huge spread. I always cook for eight, but make enough to feed 30… - View Quote Details on There are two Christmas traditions I’ve inherited from my mother…
But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your body is the enemy, how can you relax and take pleasure? Everything is about control, rather than relaxing, about holding everything in. - View Quote Details on But I do think that women who spend all their…
The thing I liked about writing about food when I started it was that I felt I was writing about food in a different way. Not like a food writer. - View Quote Details on The thing I liked about writing about food when I…
No doubt there can be a shy, reserved side to Nigella Lawson - and some people interpret this as coldness - but it is not in evidence today. She seems flamboyant, if anything, and perhaps this is a persona she can slip in and out of (John Diamond once described her as ‘a gay man trapped in a woman’s body’). - View Quote Details on No doubt there can be a shy, reserved side to…
Cooking aside, I am what you’d call a domestic slut. Cooking is really the only domestic activity I enjoy. I would do anything not to do the normal bits of household work - it’s not one of my strong points. - View Quote Details on Cooking aside, I am what you’d call a domestic slut…
I have long been convinced that Nigella’s iconic status has less to do with her abilities than a desire on the part of her admirers to invest in what she represents. - View Quote Details on I have long been convinced that Nigella’s iconic status has…
I think cooking should be about fun and family. I’m not a trained chef. I don’t pretend to be and I think part of my appeal is that my approach to cooking is really relaxed and not rigid. There are no rules in my kitchen. - View Quote Details on I think cooking should be about fun and family. I’m…
I don’t wear anything in bed. But I’m not ready for a nude scene quite yet. - View Quote Details on I don’t wear anything in bed. But I’m not ready…
I think sometimes that people assume because I’m on television I’m an expert, but I think the whole point of what I do is that I’m not and I don’t have any training. My approach isn’t about a fancy ingredient or style. I cook what I love to eat. - View Quote Details on I think sometimes that people assume because I’m on television…
It’s like I can never watch myself on TV unless I have to do some editing before a show comes out. It’s like hearing your voice back on a tape recorder and I’m sure you know how horrible that is. I always look for the worst things in myself - criticising my hair and stuff. I’m very self-conscious about it all. - View Quote Details on It’s like I can never watch myself on TV unless…

About Nigella Lawson

Nigella Lawson (born 6 January, 1960 ) is an English journalist, food writer, broadcaster and television presenter.

Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:20:06 +0000

[To Mr. Johnson] If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales. - View Quote Details on [To Mr. Johnson] If you were to make little fishes…
One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index. - View Quote Details on One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a…
You may all go to pot. - View Quote Details on You may all go to pot.
They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem,
Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem. - View Quote Details on They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem,
Till, seeming…
Handsome is that handsome does. - View Quote Details on Handsome is that handsome does.
Our Garrick’s a salad; for in him we see
Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree! - View Quote Details on Our Garrick’s a salad; for in him we see
Oil, vinegar,…
When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy?
What art can wash her guilt away? - View Quote Details on When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late that…
Hope, like the gleaming taper’s light,
Adorns and cheers our way;
And still, as darker grows the night,
Emits a brighter ray. - View Quote Details on Hope, like the gleaming taper’s light,
Adorns and cheers our way;
And…
Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only difference is, that in good inns, you pay dearly for your luxuries, and in bad inns you are fleeced and starved. - View Quote Details on Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only difference…
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack,
For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. - View Quote Details on He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack,
For…
We modest Gentlemen don’t want for much success among the women. - View Quote Details on We modest Gentlemen don’t want for much success among the…
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. - View Quote Details on Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject…
To men of other minds my fancy flies,
Embosomed in the deep where Holland lies.
Methinks her patient sons before me stand,
Where the broad ocean leans against the land. - View Quote Details on To men of other minds my fancy flies,
Embosomed in the…
And in that town a dog was found,
As many dogs there be,
Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound,
And curs of low degree. - View Quote Details on And in that town a dog was found,
As many dogs…
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting;
‘Twas only that when he was off he was acting. - View Quote Details on On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting;
‘Twas only that…
He calls his extravagance, generosity; and his trusting everybody, universal benevolence. - View Quote Details on He calls his extravagance, generosity; and his trusting everybody, universal…
The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor,
The varnished clock that clicked behind the door;
The chest contrived a double debt to pay,
A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. - View Quote Details on The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor,
The varnished clock that…
But winter lingering chills the lap of May. - View Quote Details on But winter lingering chills the lap of May.
Even children followed with endearing wile,
And plucked his gown, to share the good man’s smile. - View Quote Details on Even children followed with endearing wile,
And plucked his gown, to…
Careless their merits or their faults to scan,
His pity gave ere charity began.
Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride,
And e’en his failings leaned to Virtue’s side. - View Quote Details on Careless their merits or their faults to scan,
His pity gave…
Measures, not men, have always been my mark. - View Quote Details on Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it. - View Quote Details on There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol…
A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay,
A cap by night — a stocking all the day! - View Quote Details on A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay,
A cap by…
We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors. - View Quote Details on We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to…
Good people all, with one acord,
Lament for Madame Blaize,
Who never wanted a good word —
From those who spoke her praise. - View Quote Details on Good people all, with one acord,
Lament for Madame Blaize,
Who never…
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. - View Quote Details on Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Who peppered the highest was surest to please. - View Quote Details on Who peppered the highest was surest to please.
As a wit, if not first, in the very first line. - View Quote Details on As a wit, if not first, in the very first…
That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel. - View Quote Details on That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce…
Silence gives consent. - View Quote Details on Silence gives consent.
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po. - View Quote Details on Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering…
Where village statesmen talked with looks profound,
And news much older than their ale went round. - View Quote Details on Where village statesmen talked with looks profound,
And news much older…
To the last moment of his breath
On hope the wretch relies;
And e’en the pang preceding death
Bids expectation rise. - View Quote Details on To the last moment of his breath
On hope the wretch…
Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long. - View Quote Details on Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.
Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame,
Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame.
Their level life is but a mouldering fire,
Unquenched by want, unfanned by strong desire. - View Quote Details on Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame,
Catch every…
How happy he who crowns in shades like these,
A youth of labour with an age of ease. - View Quote Details on How happy he who crowns in shades like these,
A youth…
O Memory! thou fond deceiver. - View Quote Details on O Memory! thou fond deceiver.
Where’er I roam, whatever realms I see,
My heart untraveled fondly turns to thee;
Still to my brother turns with ceaseless pain,
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. - View Quote Details on Where’er I roam, whatever realms I see,
My heart untraveled fondly…
They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses. - View Quote Details on They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived…
The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance to her lover,
And wring his bosom, is — to die. - View Quote Details on The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame…

About Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1730 (or 1728 ) – 4 April 1774 ) was an Irish writer, playwright, and physician.

Martin Chuzzlewit Quotes

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:50:07 +0000

I’ll tell you what, my dear,” he observed, when Mrs Gamp had at last withdrawn and shut the door, “that’s a ve-ry shrewd woman. That’s a woman whose intellect is immensely superior to her station in life. That’s a woman who observes and reflects in an uncommon manner. She’s the sort of woman now,” said Mould, drawing his silk handkerchief over his head again, and composing himself for a nap “one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing; and do it neatly, too! - View Quote Details on I’ll tell you what, my dear,” he observed, when Mrs…
Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation. - View Quote Details on Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to…
Our fellow-countryman is a model of a man, quite fresh from Natur’s mold! - View Quote Details on Our fellow-countryman is a model of a man, quite fresh…
He’d make a lovely corpse. - View Quote Details on He’d make a lovely corpse.
Rich folks may ride on camels, but it an’t so easy for ‘em to see out of a needle’s eye. That is my comfort, and I hope I knows it. - View Quote Details on Rich folks may ride on camels, but it an’t so…
What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long–sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non–existent to a short–sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is ALWAYS the writer who colours highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for colour is a little dull? - View Quote Details on What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions,…
With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. - View Quote Details on With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out…
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe. - View Quote Details on If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be…
Firstly, that it may be safely asserted, and yet without implying any direct participation in the Manboddo doctrine touching the probability of the human race having once been monkeys, that men do play very strange and extraordinary tricks. Secondly, and yet without trenching on the Blumenbach theory as to the descendants of Adam having a vast number of qualities which belong more particularly to swine than to any other class of animals in the creation, that some men certainly are remarkable for taking uncommon good care of themselves. - View Quote Details on Firstly, that it may be safely asserted, and yet without…
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. - View Quote Details on Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioneered, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honour and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them! - View Quote Details on Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations…
Regrets,” said Martin, “are the natural property of grey hairs; and I enjoy, in common with all other men, at least my share of such inheritance. - View Quote Details on Regrets,” said Martin, “are the natural property of grey hairs;…
I could have bore it with a thankful art. But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive. No, Betsey!” said Mrs Gamp, in a violent burst of feeling, “nor worms forget! - View Quote Details on I could have bore it with a thankful art. But…
But charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. - View Quote Details on But charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There an’t much credit in that. If I was very ragged and very jolly, then I should begin to feel I had gained a point, Mr Pinch. - View Quote Details on Any man may be in good spirits and good temper…
Leave the bottle on the chimley-piece, and don’t ask me to take none, but let me put my lips to it when I am so dispoged, and then I will do what I’m engaged to do, according to the best of my ability. - View Quote Details on Leave the bottle on the chimley-piece, and don’t ask me…
I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomised our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me. - View Quote Details on I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another…
Oh, Sairey, Sairey, little do we know what lays before us! - View Quote Details on Oh, Sairey, Sairey, little do we know what lays before…
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. - View Quote Details on Home is a name, a word, it is a strong…
Keep up appearances whatever you do. - View Quote Details on Keep up appearances whatever you do.
There might be some credit in being jolly with a wife. - View Quote Details on There might be some credit in being jolly with a…

About Martin Chuzzlewit

Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-1844) is a novel by Charles Dickens, the main theme of which is selfishness, portrayed in a satirical fashion using all the members of the Chuzzlewit family. The novel is also notable for one of Dickens’ great villains, Seth Pecksniff, and the nurse Mrs. Gamp.

Vampire Knight Quotes

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Kaname-sama…. I love you! I love you! You are the begining of my world and everything in that world. So even if I couldn’t remember my past, I wasn’t scared. - View Quote Details on Kaname-sama…. I love you! I love you! You are the…
The blood has stopped flowing, but the puncture wounds… he really pierced you deeply. Yuki… does it hurt?…Are you afraid of vampires now? - View Quote Details on The blood has stopped flowing, but the puncture wounds… he…
Are you sure? Even if the hidden truth is drenched in blood…Do you still want to know…? (to Yuuki) - View Quote Details on Are you sure? Even if the hidden truth is drenched…
Being like this makes me feel like we’ve returned to the old days somewhat. Yeah. Zero is Zero. Even if you are a vampire now. - View Quote Details on Being like this makes me feel like we’ve returned to…
Yuki. This is the safest place for you to be. - View Quote Details on Yuki. This is the safest place for you to be.
Yuki, I can’t keep my composure when my dear girl has been pierced by someone else. - View Quote Details on Yuki, I can’t keep my composure when my dear girl…
Do you want to become a vampire, Yuki? Become a blood sucking monster like me…live for eternity…by my side? - View Quote Details on Do you want to become a vampire, Yuki? Become a…
I want to put an end to the war between humans and vampires– a war that has been continuing in the darkness of history since ancient times! I want the young vampires, with their natural intelligence and unfettered hearts, to become a bridge between the two species!! I’m educating them for that purpose! That is why I created the Night Class! - View Quote Details on I want to put an end to the war between…
I borrowed it from the Headmaster. It’s a gun to use against vampires. If I lose the human part of me, and go mad as a vampire… shoot me with that gun. Not yet, but that day will eventually come. Kill me by your own hand then. - View Quote Details on I borrowed it from the Headmaster. It’s a gun to…
You devoured her mercilessly. She can’t even stand up. Was her blood so delicious? - View Quote Details on You devoured her mercilessly. She can’t even stand up. Was…
A human bitten by a pureblood vampire transforms into a vampire. When that happens, there can be only one of two results, dying from the loss of blood, or unfavorably surviving and suffering the pain of slowly transforming into a vampire. Other vampires don’t possess this dark power that purebloods have. I respect his strength of will, he was only a human, yet he resisted the powerful vampire instinct for four years. - View Quote Details on A human bitten by a pureblood vampire transforms into a…
Yuki… You make me cruel. - View Quote Details on Yuki… You make me cruel.
You can have those, this one is enough for me.(after having received Yuuki’s chocolates) - View Quote Details on You can have those, this one is enough for me.(after…
Headmaster Cross, how much longer are you going to keep Zero in the Day Class? That time is approaching for him. - View Quote Details on Headmaster Cross, how much longer are you going to keep…
The world is dyed with the color of blood. It will never be able to go back to the way it was before. - View Quote Details on The world is dyed with the color of blood. It…
Yuki is… the beloved daughter that Haruka and Juuri protected in secret and… the one born to become my wife. If Yuki still desires it… - View Quote Details on Yuki is… the beloved daughter that Haruka and Juuri protected…
The Headmaster talks about the Night Class like they’re good vampires who support his pacifism, but I don’t trust them. I won’t let my guard down. I’m cooperating so I can find the most effective way to kill those beasts in human form. - View Quote Details on The Headmaster talks about the Night Class like they’re good…
It’s all right. You be just the way you are, Yuuki. You’re different from the Night Class students who wait on me… You’re a warm-hearted girl, Yuki. That’s more than enough. - View Quote Details on It’s all right. You be just the way you are,…
She’s not small. In my heart, her existence isn’t small. - View Quote Details on She’s not small. In my heart, her existence isn’t small.
The nice smell is your blood, Yuuki. - View Quote Details on The nice smell is your blood, Yuuki.
A glimpse of what I saw earlier was something that was so distant from me. For Kaname-sama…. And yet right now, this man is lying here in my arms. It´s such a strange feeling. - View Quote Details on A glimpse of what I saw earlier was something that…
I will do anything if it´s for Kaname-sama. - View Quote Details on I will do anything if it´s for Kaname-sama.
You’re a disgrace to all vampires. - View Quote Details on You’re a disgrace to all vampires.
Former humans eventually fall into the Level E category, Yuki. They gradually lose their sanity, reaching their “end” - their destruction. - View Quote Details on Former humans eventually fall into the Level E category, Yuki…
Yuki is my dear girl. The only one in the entire world. - View Quote Details on Yuki is my dear girl. The only one in the…
Because Yuuki was there, I might have been able to live on… - View Quote Details on Because Yuuki was there, I might have been able to…
Hey baby, what’s your blood type? - View Quote Details on Hey baby, what’s your blood type?
Yuki, who made those wounds in your neck? In our classroom the night before last, we suddenly smelt blood, we were surprised. I was the only one who noticed right away that it was your blood. - View Quote Details on Yuki, who made those wounds in your neck? In our…
Humans should never be turned into vampires. But in the old days, hidden from history, when the war between vampires and vampire hunters was at its peak, vampires turned many humans into vampires to use in battle. And now the aristocrats have the duty to manage those survivors. Sometimes we have to kill them off… - View Quote Details on Humans should never be turned into vampires. But in the…
You will never be betrayed. - View Quote Details on You will never be betrayed.
Both of us understand, but neither of us will say it. It’s a sin to keep a vampire alive by offering my own blood as bait. We are doing something that is forbidden. No one must find out about this. - View Quote Details on Both of us understand, but neither of us will say…

About Vampire Knight

Vampire Knight is a manga by Matsuri Hino of the fantasy genre that takes place in an alternate reality in which vampires and humans are in a constant state of conflict, except on the campus of cross academy where Headmaster Cross is trying to allow the two species to peacefully coexist.

Vernon Howard Quotes

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You are not your cluster of memorized ideas about yourself. Awareness of this dissolves both the cluster and the belief that others can control you. If you have a self-image of being a desirable person, others can control you by flattering it, but can they control if you have no such image? - View Quote Details on You are not your cluster of memorized ideas about yourself…
Try to see what attitudes rule your day, then ask what kind of a day you usually have. - View Quote Details on Try to see what attitudes rule your day, then ask…
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes. Don’t add to them. Be real, not impressive. - View Quote Details on The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes…
A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction. He does not really seek happiness, rather he seeks for a condition which matches his personl idea regarding the nature of happiness. But happiness is not a mere idea, for one idea will always have competition from another idea. The is why the unhappy man chases for ever from one attraction to another. Happiness will come when he stops chasing, that is, when he stops thinking that an idea about happiness is the same as happiness. A man enjoying the sunshine does so without analysing it. - View Quote Details on A person obsessed with the need to be happy will…
We burden ourselves with useless ideas which we carelessly take as facts. Instead of letting reality come as a new surprise, we insist that it conform to our habitual concepts, and thus, we spoil everything. - View Quote Details on We burden ourselves with useless ideas which we carelessly take…
Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by. - View Quote Details on Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the…
Remember that an answer to a difficulty resides at a higher level than our usual thinking, so seek this loftier level. - View Quote Details on Remember that an answer to a difficulty resides at a…
You are not responsible for anyone who stubbornly chooses to ruin his own life. - View Quote Details on You are not responsible for anyone who stubbornly chooses to…
The power of fantasy is so strong that people think they are having a good time when they are merely wasting money. - View Quote Details on The power of fantasy is so strong that people think…
You are not really bothered by what others think of you. You are bothered by what you think of yourself. - View Quote Details on You are not really bothered by what others think of…
If you hand a man a lemon and tell him that its sourness lies outside the lemon, he will think you are joking. Yet, with a perfectly straight face, that same man will tell you that his sour life is caused by external events. When will man learn that he is the cause of his own feelings for either happiness or anxiety? - View Quote Details on If you hand a man a lemon and tell him…
The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster. - View Quote Details on The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of…
Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood. - View Quote Details on Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something…
A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness. - View Quote Details on A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results…
People fight to preserve their frozen beliefs and then complain of the cold! - View Quote Details on People fight to preserve their frozen beliefs and then complain…
Self-righteousness loves to pounce on an evil which by sheer accident is not its particular evil. - View Quote Details on Self-righteousness loves to pounce on an evil which by sheer…
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints. - View Quote Details on All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
Everyone has imaginary ideas of himself as being this or that sort of person. And you can be sure that the images are highly complimentary! But since they are purely imaginary, they are highly sensitive to assault by reality. - View Quote Details on Everyone has imaginary ideas of himself as being this or…
When we associate with others we really associate with ourselves. We like or dislike in others whatever we like or dislike in ourselves. - View Quote Details on When we associate with others we really associate with ourselves…
The less life in a person, the more he will try to live off your life. - View Quote Details on The less life in a person, the more he will…
It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted? - View Quote Details on It is not a disaster to discover that you are…
Trying to command life without studying one’s own mind is like trying to play the piano without studying music. - View Quote Details on Trying to command life without studying one’s own mind is…
Consciously risk the loss of something before losing it, and you will lose the fear of losing it. - View Quote Details on Consciously risk the loss of something before losing it, and…
Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought. - View Quote Details on Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.
The real prize is never delivered by memory or by imagination, but by something above them. - View Quote Details on The real prize is never delivered by memory or by…
If we will repeatedly suffer the humiliation of admitting that we really do not know what we’re talking about, eventually we will. - View Quote Details on If we will repeatedly suffer the humiliation of admitting that…
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination. - View Quote Details on The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life…

About Vernon Howard

Vernon Howard (1918-1992) was an American writer and spiritual teacher.

David Horowitz Quotes

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:00:05 +0000

Commodity fetishism is the key to the prosperity and efficiency of the capitalist economy and to the relative peace of capitalist states. It is what makes us work together. - View Quote Details on Commodity fetishism is the key to the prosperity and efficiency…
Leftists want to regulate everything but hard drugs and sex. - View Quote Details on Leftists want to regulate everything but hard drugs and sex.
Liberation is no longer, and can be no longer, merely a national concern. The dimension of the struggle, as Lenin and the Bolsheviks so clearly saw, is international: its road is the socialist revolution. - View Quote Details on Liberation is no longer, and can be no longer, merely…
If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn’t there a black exodus? - View Quote Details on If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn’t there a…
Baghdad is liberated. In the days to come let us not forget that if it was not for one man, and one man alone — George Bush — the people of Iraq would not be celebrating in the streets and pulling down Saddam’s statues today… We have entered the era of a new civil war between the forces of freedom and the powers of Islamo-fascist and communist darkness, and once again the left is clearly detemined to take its stand on the other side. The good news is that America is back. Our military has performed superlatively. Our leadership has stood tall. We ourselves can celebrate over this and look confidently towards what lies ahead. - View Quote Details on Baghdad is liberated. In the days to come let us…
More than ever before, for humanity to live under capitalism, is to live on borrowed time. - View Quote Details on More than ever before, for humanity to live under capitalism,…
The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago? - View Quote Details on The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that…
For the sake of the poorest peasants in this godforsaken country, I can’t wait for the Contras to march into this town and liberate it from these fucking Sandinistas! - View Quote Details on For the sake of the poorest peasants in this godforsaken…
If you are a conservative and leftists have not tried to smear you as a McCarthyite, racist, sexist, or homophobe, it simply means that, in their estimation, you are not very effective. - View Quote Details on If you are a conservative and leftists have not tried…
Republicans like art, so people who are genuine artists shouldn’t worry. - View Quote Details on Republicans like art, so people who are genuine artists shouldn’t…
It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. (…) I am persuaded that a lie grounded in human desire is too powerful for mere reason to kill. - View Quote Details on It is the human wish to be told lies that…

About David Horowitz

David Joel Horowitz (born January 10, 1939 ) is an American conservative writer and activist. A prominent supporter of Marxism and a member of the New Left in the 1960s, Horowitz later rejected Leftism and now identifies with the right wing of the political spectrum.