Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
Samuel Alexander
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Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.
HAROLD BLOOM Then other things that came up along the way such as having to replace certain pieces of brick or ro...
MICHAEL KAUFMANN The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
SAMUEL ALEXANDER Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other,...
IMMANUEL KANT Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own ...
GEORGE ORWELL I've always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to f...
MICHAEL PALIN This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing mysel...
FRANZ KAFKA I act as the tongue of you,
... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
WALT WHITMAN Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to cat...
DAMIEN ECHOLS Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity.
ROY BENNETT Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Pieces of me, I'm giving to you.
In the words that I say and the things that I do.
SHELLI THOMPSON Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
FAWN M. BRODIE In life, school, or work, you must resourcefully act with purpose, curiosity, and wisdom toward posi...
JASON L. MA We've decided to act as an industry rather than individual hospitals or hospital systems.
MARK MORALES Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship i...
JOHN O'DONOHUE When the Spirit of God begins to act within you_ wrong things are budded off.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.
MALCOLM GLADWELL They only have six or seven or eight pieces of equipment assigned to the area and as I understand it...
BILL HOGAN Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman...
AMBROSE BIERCE The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
EZRA POUND Why perform a meta-analysis? what is a meta-analysis? Meta-analysis is an analytical approach design...
MADHUKAR SHIVAJIRAO DAMA The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the in...
WILHELM WUNDT I tend to regard the Coase theorem as a stepping stone on the way to an analysis of an economy with ...
RONALD COASE Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may ...
ROBIN MORGAN Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces.
CYRIL CUSACK If I were to hit my wife, no one would have trouble seeing that as an assault or a criminal act. Whe...
DAVID FINKELHOR Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always...
DEAN INGE Seeing eye to an eye is a must, especially when there lies a case, or an intent, to meet; even by in...
PRIYAVRAT THAREJA To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins ...
JAMES MOONEY In the final analysis we have managed to end 2005 with all the pieces that were fragmented throughou...
MICK BEDDOES [The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the...
ANTONIN SCALIA We should only commend or condemn an act of someone, not the person as such; because everyone impres...
DR. VINOD B. NAIR I own a ranch in Texas, so there's always something to do as far as work goes, whether it's ...
STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN “The death that will kill a man begins as an appetite.”
ESAN MAGAZINE I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long...
BILL COSBY I like to think that people value the journey as well as, or even more than, the destination. This g...
STUART RECKASE Our analysis of government data shows that Ford F-150 performs as well, or better than, other pick-u...
KRISTEN KINLEY Strangers can be consequential when you want to practice an atrophied or unexplored facet of you, as...
KARE ANDERSON Curiosity is an addictive drug.
KIMBERLY DERTING When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one rec...
KAREN HORNEY An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
GARRETT HARDIN Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of ev...
V. S. NAIPAUL Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some de...
OLIVER SACKS Here’s to all the places we went. And all the places we’ll go. And here’s me, whispering again...
JOHN GREEN I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry
JOHN GREEN The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend ob...
JOHN GREEN And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
BIBLE You’re never going to learn something as profoundly as when it’s purely out of curiosity.
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defen...
GEORGE ORWELL For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an op...
RAQUEL CEPEDA An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.
PETER STRAUB Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
RICHARD WHATELY Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.
NAJAT VALLAUD-BELKACEM Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES I tend to take a common-sense approach to problem-solving, and oftentimes that involves the use of q...
MATT SILVERMAN group effect" is an important source of information in analysis.
ADAM GOTTBETTER My wife just saw one of her favorite stars [Alexander] and I had to go get an autograph for her.
ANTHONY WILLIAMS An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds,...
HAROLD LOKES Samuel Beckett's estate will not license productions of his plays that are not performed as writ...
TERRY TEACHOUT To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of a...
AMY TAN Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)
TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England! -King Henry V. Act...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A woman with a woman's viewpoint is of more value when she forgets she's a woman and begins to act l...
LEONOR KRETZER SULLIVAN On the rue de la Crosse, the Hotel of Bees becomes almost weightless for a moment, lifted in a spira...
ANTHONY DOERR ...the pleasures of the world are chiefly folly, and the business of it mostly knavery, and both not...
HENRY FIELDING Just as humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and ...
VALERIE SOLANIS As humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and havin...
VALERIE SOLANAS Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shi...
JOEL EDGERTON For though to smatter ends of Greek
Or Latin be the rhetoric
Of pedants counted, and vain-glor...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) I made a sandwich out of things. I'm an American. We can eat anything as long as it's between two pi...
JIM BUTCHER Life runs to death as its goal, and we should go towards that next stage of experience either carele...
JAMES STEPHENS To come out of an evil act, you need to first identify the act as a SIN. And coming out of it leads ...
THE INSPIRATIONIST Curiosity could be almost as powerful as desire.
SHAYLA BLACK But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him
BIBLE Be in your own skin, as an act of self-loving.
H. RAVEN ROSE Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepar...
MARY KAY ASH When I was an institutional broker in a former life, I was a believer in the merits of using technic...
RICK SANTELLI Quoting Samuel Johnson: "Men know that ...
JAMES BOSWELL [That power] is not limited to aliens or foreign battlefields, ... conditioned on an act of Congress...
THEODORE OLSON I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way ...
JILL MCCORKLE When curiosity drives you, discoveries will line your path
SOTONYE ANGA Alexander is an incredibly gifted young player, and we are excited to have him join our club.
GEORGE MCPHEE I am Mother Nature. All of creation bows before me. When people leave their cities and learn of me�...
SETH ADAM SMITH Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
HANS HOFMANN Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysi...
BILL GROSS Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communicati...
ROY T. BENNETT An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds,...
HAROLD LOUKES Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Respect cannot be learned, purchased or acquired - it can only be earned
'BITS & PIECES' It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be pr...
MARY KAY ASH This is an inaccurate and misinformed interpretation of the administration's legal analysis.
BRIAN ROEHRKASSE They're tearing the stuff up,
STEVE BROWN You're tearing me apart!
JAMES DEAN Oh, its Tommy this, an Tommy that, an Tommy, go away;But its Thank you, Mister Atkins, when the band...
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SAMUEL ALEXANDER But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of cont...
SAMUEL ALEXANDER But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an a...
SAMUEL ALEXANDER Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
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SAMUEL ALEXANDER The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
SAMUEL ALEXANDER The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
SAMUEL ALEXANDER Constant love despite almost impossible anti-clamix towards this place of the rising sun...
ALEXANDER On the way to your success and realisation of the dreams you have to do one tiny thing - start do it...
ALEXANDER As more you're busy and overwhelmed as more free and leisure time you have.
ALEXANDER Occasionally, I don't invent something and I don't lie, sometimes there're moments when I just don't...
ALEXANDER I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and elo...
ALEXANDER Being unique - be yourself, only so you'll distinguish yourself out of the ''grey'' and motionless r...
ALEXANDER Live with the current day, otherwise someday you'll wake up and realise that all remarkable and gorg...
ALEXANDER Endeavour to explore the surrounding world, try to do your best and jump over you head, only in that...
ALEXANDER As more busier and overwhelmed you're, as more free time you have.
ALEXANDER Facing the obstacle don't fall in depression, just reverse the problem and take a glance at it at an...
ALEXANDER Everything what you do has sense. If you don't like the world around you can draw your own, compose ...
ALEXANDER I'm enormously afraid of one inevitable and trivial thing - that one day I'll simply cease to exist.
ALEXANDER Do you know why responsible people do hide price of extremely expensive things? People don't want to...
ALEXANDER I never liked you, and I always will.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these ...
SAMUEL PEPYS Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
SAMUEL PEPYS Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our conditi...
SAMUEL PEPYS Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
SAMUEL PEPYS My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. M...
SAMUEL MORSE What God hath wrought?
SAMUEL MORSE My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. T...
SAMUEL LOVER Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman...
SAMUEL LOVER To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former j...
SAMUEL LOVER How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might,...
SAMUEL LOVER Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
SAMUEL LOVER When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. ...
SAMUEL LOVER Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
SAMUEL LOVER What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which ...
SAMUEL LOVER I'm not a very typical singer.
SAMUEL LARSEN I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
SAMUEL LARSEN The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're ju...
SAMUEL LARSEN I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
SAMUEL LARSEN There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achiev...
SAMUEL LARSEN I think what turned me off of Christianity as a kid, and what I think turns other people off, is the...
SAMUEL LARSEN I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously bef...
SAMUEL LARSEN You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
SAMUEL LARSEN I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.
SAMUEL LARSEN I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with ...
SAMUEL LARSEN I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
SAMUEL LARSEN I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we'...
SAMUEL LARSEN Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.
SAMUEL LARSEN On 'Glee,' the director can be like, 'Hey, your face is looking a little too intense her...
SAMUEL LARSEN The first time I heard 'Jolene,' I was 12 years old, and it was performed by Jack White. I r...
SAMUEL LARSEN One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're hav...
SAMUEL LARSEN I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
SAMUEL LARSEN I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
SAMUEL LARSEN I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
SAMUEL LARSEN I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.
SAMUEL LARSEN Some of the craziest people I know, some of the coolest guys I know who party and go crazy and play ...
SAMUEL LARSEN Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
SAMUEL LARSEN There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.
SAMUEL LARSEN The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
SAMUEL LARSEN I think something that's very relevant in real life and that they don't portray enough on TV...
SAMUEL LARSEN He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own...
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Love is only one of many passions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of i...
SAMUEL HORSLEY Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discove...
SAMUEL HORSLEY In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
SAMUEL HOPKINS These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for...
SAMUEL HOPKINS Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
SAMUEL HOPKINS My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, ...
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a w...
SAMUEL GOMPERS It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
SAMUEL GOMPERS Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
SAMUEL GOMPERS We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to dem...
SAMUEL GOMPERS The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice a...
SAMUEL GOMPERS The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
SAMUEL GOMPERS Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liber...
SAMUEL GOMPERS Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
SAMUEL GOMPERS Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal r...
SAMUEL GOMPERS Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where yo...
SAMUEL FULLER You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. Th...
SAMUEL FULLER Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what y...
SAMUEL FULLER When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of th...
SAMUEL FULLER We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
SAMUEL FULLER Surviving is the only glory in war.
SAMUEL FULLER When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
SAMUEL FOOTE Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
SAMUEL FOOTE He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
SAMUEL FOOTE Death and the dice level all distinctions.
SAMUEL FOOTE Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. S...
SAMUEL DASH I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I migh...
SAMUEL DASH I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.
SAMUEL DASH One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if ...
SAMUEL DASH While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wan...
SAMUEL DASH I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay...
SAMUEL DASH Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its out...
SAMUEL DASH I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and infor...
SAMUEL DASH When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a di...
SAMUEL DASH We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.
SAMUEL DANIEL The wise are above books.
SAMUEL DANIEL And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
SAMUEL DANIEL Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
SAMUEL DANIEL By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out ...
SAMUEL DANIEL The stars that have most glory have no rest.
SAMUEL DANIEL Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
SAMUEL DANIEL Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace an...
SAMUEL CHASE Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.
SAMUEL CHASE By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and den...
SAMUEL CHASE People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio b...
SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
SAMUEL BUTLER If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
SAMUEL BUTLER The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
SAMUEL BUTLER A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in ...
SAMUEL BECKETT All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beg...
SAMUEL BECKETT No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I alw...
SAMUEL BECKETT Do we mean love, when we say love?
SAMUEL BECKETT Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on...
SAMUEL BECKETT You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
SAMUEL BECKETT If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
SAMUEL BECKETT What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
SAMUEL BECKETT It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to r...
SAMUEL BECKETT I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
SAMUEL BECKETT In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
SAMUEL BECKETT If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
SAMUEL BECKETT I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left co...
SAMUEL BARNETT I guess I've grown to admire Queen Elizabeth II more. I've always struggled with my feelings...
SAMUEL BARNETT In New York, I get people coming up to me because 'The History Boys' was such a hit on Broad...
SAMUEL BARNETT With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you c...
SAMUEL BARNETT I hope it's always going to be a mix between theatre, film and radio. I've been very lucky l...
SAMUEL BARNETT The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly reb...
SAMUEL BARNETT My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career t...
SAMUEL BARNETT I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if ...
SAMUEL BARNETT I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind m...
SAMUEL BARNETT I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I...
SAMUEL BARNETT Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to b...
SAMUEL BARNETT I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
SAMUEL BARNETT I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
SAMUEL BARNETT Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the lang...
SAMUEL BARNETT It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it...
SAMUEL BARNETT This industry isn't fair. It doesn't owe anybody a career. It's just about luck, determi...
SAMUEL BARNETT I feel like I've gotten more than a lot of people will ever get. I feel very fortunate.
SAMUEL BARNETT Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets ...
SAMUEL BARNETT I've definitely learned that if you want to have power as a woman in Shakespeare's time, and...
SAMUEL BARNETT Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fin...
SAMUEL BARNETT I like all sorts of art, that's why I love wandering around The National Gallery.
SAMUEL BARNETT I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to d...
SAMUEL BARBER I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York R...
SAMUEL BARBER I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a ...
SAMUEL BARBER As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write...
SAMUEL BARBER I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual sto...
SAMUEL BARBER I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the lates...
SAMUEL BARBER There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.
SAMUEL BARBER I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being...
SAMUEL BARBER I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unplea...
SAMUEL BARBER If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
SAMUEL ALITO I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
SAMUEL ALITO Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secul...
SAMUEL ALITO A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation...
SAMUEL ALITO I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.
SAMUEL ALITO I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decisio...
SAMUEL ALITO It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through thei...
SAMUEL ADAMS There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinio...
SAMUEL ADAMS Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a shar...
SAMUEL ADAMS The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ...
SAMUEL ADAMS How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
SAMUEL ADAMS The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peac...
SAMUEL ADAMS It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole teno...
SAMUEL ADAMS We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
SAMUEL ADAMS I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
SAMUEL ADAMS The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
SAMUEL BUTLER That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting win...
SAMUEL LOVER In Australia, getting an audition can be a rarity. There just aren't as many opportunities.
XAVIER SAMUEL My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
XAVIER SAMUEL Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of...
XAVIER SAMUEL I don't know that many Australian actors in Los Angeles, but there are a few of us. I mean, we k...
XAVIER SAMUEL I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it h...
XAVIER SAMUEL There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
SAMUEL BECKETT The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
SAMUEL JOHNSON When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.
SAMUEL LOVER The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality ...
SAMUEL GOMPERS