The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.
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C. JOYBELL C. The complexity of the emotional life of the play is what you live to work on.
MARSHA MASON I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the wo...
CARLA GUGINO Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. Whe...
ANN MILLER
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OWAIN YEOMAN I admire actors that consistently challenge themselves and play a wide range of different roles. Eve...
JOE DEMPSIE
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like...
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THE PROPHET OF LIFE
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court a...
LEBRON JAMES He's a big kid. It's tough for a kid like that (to play back-to-back games), just like it's tough fo...
ELDON HOY Jason Katims creates truly relatable three-dimensional people you fall in love with right away. Jaso...
DAVID WALTON
I play every show like it's my last. Fortunately, that's never turned out to be the case.
GREGG ALLMAN
I'm slightly influenced by sport in that I like the idea of trying, like an athlete, to keep abs...
COLM TOIBIN
Play it once for old times' sake. Play it twice to not forsake. And play it thrice if you cannot fak...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES
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AARON SORKIN For me, the best thing I can do is play live. The best way for me to put over what I'm trying to...
PAUL WELLER I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
DAN MARINO When the forwards play like that, there is no better team in the world to play on the wing for.
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EVE PLUMB
The first devices to record and play back music were the phonograph and the gramophone. The gramopho...
MARVIN AMMORI Human divisions would be child's play for any reasonably competent alien overlord to exploit - c...
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WINONA RYDER It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
NASTASSJA KINSKI
Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES
The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL When you see an Alexander McQueen fashion show, you are taken on a journey. It's surreal.
JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME
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SONG HYE-KYO You have to be really willing to embrace life and life's turns, and play that for your audience,...
LESLEY ANN WARREN
Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my l...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ
Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
CARL ANDRE
Again, I am surprised why people seek to eliminate lust and cling to love; as they wish to ignore ha...
C. JOYBELL C.
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PETER FALK I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, bu...
IDRIS ELBA
'Love Don't Let Me Down,' which is the original title of 'Country Strong,' was j...
GARRETT HEDLUND
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JIMMY PAGE I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are s...
DANIEL BRUHL
Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns t...
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL
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JOHN WYCLIFFE
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TOM HIDDLESTON You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify an...
BENMONT TENCH
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JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN
I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sak...
BAYARD TAYLOR
I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C.
A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be ta...
JOHN O. BRENNAN A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
COLIN WILSON A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors
COLIN WILSON
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JAMES MATTIS Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious ...
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DARIUS RUCKER
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LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA I have been very fortunate to be able to work and get the opportunity to play different roles. It...
TONY CURRAN The defense stepped up and controlled the ball. It allowed us to put the ball in play for the offens...
JACK STRONG
I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
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MELANIE LYNSKEY
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SABINE BARING-GOULD
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JOSHUA BELL
If you like to argue just for the sake of being contentious, you shouldn't pick a job based on t...
TUCKER MAX
I like to play in the low 70's. If it gets any hotter than that I'll stay in the bar!
BOB HOPE I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.
MIKE FIGGIS I believe it's our loss of connection with our instinctual side that prevents us from being effectiv...
CESAR MILLAN
Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.
EDDIE REDMAYNE
He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
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LUCA GUADAGNINO
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SAM ROCKWELL I'm not really in touch with those 'Seinfeld' lads except Jason Alexander.
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T. R. KNIGHT
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ECKHART TOLLE
Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
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CARRIE LEE
Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.
EMILY VANCAMP
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DENIS LEARY
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TRACY LETTS I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different characte...
VALERIE AZLYNN
The cast gets along pretty well, it's a good work environment. I hang out a lot with Brett Clayw...
JAMES LAFFERTY Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!
RACHEL G. FOX I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's ...
SARAH JONES (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON
There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen fo...
BRIAN MOORE Free-to-play isn't a business model. Free-to-play is a marketing strategy. It's a way to get...
MITCH LASKY I did my first professional play at 11, and there was really nothing else I ever dreamed of doing. I...
ERIC JOHNSON
Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel ...
DAN STEVENS
So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
GAVIN DEGRAW I was thinking that I was gonna have, like, Jason Kidd or Chris Thomas star in the movie to play me.
BILLY CAMPBELL
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JASON ALEXANDER
Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris ...
JASON ALEXANDER
I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best p...
JASON ALEXANDER
Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.
JASON ALEXANDER
The Middle East is a very difficult stage to play upon. Without doubt, it is a good drama. And on oc...
JASON ALEXANDER
I still don't know much about directing a movie.
JASON ALEXANDER
But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I ...
JASON ALEXANDER
But I didn't know much about directing a movie.
JASON ALEXANDER
And New York needs no explanation. I mean, if you come from Sandusky, Ohio or West New York, New Jer...
JASON ALEXANDER
We purposely created Bob out of the ashes of George. I would be insane not to measure things against...
JASON ALEXANDER
Issues can be addressed without the interference of a third party.
JASON ALEXANDER
Well, I'm in the South.
JASON ALEXANDER
The Return of the Bunny Suicides.
JASON ALEXANDER
We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.
JASON ALEXANDER
The mandate of our show is to find what makes us laugh. We had tough shoes to fill for this role, an...
JASON ALEXANDER
Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are...
JASON ALEXANDER
Is it my end-all and be-all to become a standup comic? No.
JASON ALEXANDER
Dialog (from Seinfeld) :
gary fogel : "the thing is , i've been livin in a lie"
george costanza : "j...
JASON ALEXANDER
Acting is not terribly important work, and I have always felt a bit of guilt about pursuing somethin...
JASON ALEXANDER
Usually, characters that are doing something nefarious have some extra layers to them. The general r...
JASON ALEXANDER
I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.
JASON ALEXANDER
Really, the golden egg of doing a series is that you cross that very stupid bridge that says 'Na...
JASON ALEXANDER
I had gone to the doctor. The doctor said, 'You're healthy as a horse. You've got two we...
JASON ALEXANDER
i love a good nap , sometimes it's the only thing that get me up in the morning
JASON ALEXANDER
I do think that the days of gathering around a television set that functions merely as a television ...
JASON ALEXANDER
I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually ...
JASON ALEXANDER
I met the real George Steinbrenner on only one occasion when he actually came and played himself on ...
JASON ALEXANDER
I have always wanted to play Sweeney in 'Sweeney Todd.'
JASON ALEXANDER
I kept being asked by corporations to do corporate gigs. And I said, 'I don't have anything....
JASON 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 don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want ...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not stickin...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a con...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
I'm not interested in being liked.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me....
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to ma...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting t...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's i...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
You can only go forward by making mistakes.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal s...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You ca...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
ALEXANDER SMITH
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
All generalizations are false, including this one.
ALEXANDER CHASE
In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent t...
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER
I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
I want to empower women.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
A promise must never be broken.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to...
ALEXANDER LOWEN
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood...
ALEXANDER HAIG
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
ALEXANDER POPE
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
ALEXANDER POPE
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
ALEXANDER POPE
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
ALEXANDER POPE
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
ALEXANDER POPE
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE
The most positive men are the most credulous.
ALEXANDER POPE
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE
And die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
ALEXANDER POPE
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
ALEXANDER POPE
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own pe...
ALEXANDER POPE
Never find fault with the absent.
ALEXANDER POPE
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
ALEXANDER POPE
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy...
ALEXANDER POPE
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE We do not even see the sun for several months in the north of Sweden.
ALEXANDER AHNDORIL
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
ALEXANDER POPE
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoyi...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
LAMAR ALEXANDER If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.
LAMAR ALEXANDER The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to beg...
LAMAR ALEXANDER We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren'...
LAMAR ALEXANDER I've got a new rule. It'll be rule No. 312. If it's three days before a campaign, don...
LAMAR ALEXANDER President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We...
LAMAR ALEXANDER We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up...
LAMAR ALEXANDER It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and mor...
LAMAR ALEXANDER I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, tha...
LAMAR ALEXANDER There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president an...
LAMAR ALEXANDER If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting mone...
LAMAR ALEXANDER I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
LAMAR ALEXANDER When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for ins...
LAMAR ALEXANDER When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and th...
LAMAR ALEXANDER I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've buil...
LAMAR ALEXANDER Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.
LAMAR ALEXANDER Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected f...
LAMAR ALEXANDER I think there are too many bosses in Washington telling Nashville Diesel College and Harvard Univers...
LAMAR ALEXANDER September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case s...
LAMAR ALEXANDER As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER If you're part of the Network Generation, you don't have to belong just to one nation. Dual ...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Re...
BILL ALEXANDER The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports ...
BILL ALEXANDER This Network Generation have grown up in a connected world. With Skype, Facebook, Twitter and the In...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER
Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off...
ALEXANDER SMITH
Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;And all who told it, added something new,And all who hear...
ALEXANDER POPE
See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled,
Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
Philos...
ALEXANDER POPE
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part ...
ALEXANDER POPE
Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner...
ALEXANDER MACLAREN No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody fl...
ALEXANDER TROCCHI
The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their i...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasonings, is a total ignorance of t...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there w...
EBEN ALEXANDER I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.
EBEN ALEXANDER I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. ...
EBEN ALEXANDER As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
EBEN ALEXANDER There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscio...
EBEN ALEXANDER Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth o...
EBEN ALEXANDER
The honor of a nation is its life.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in th...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there,
Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
And h...
ALEXANDER POPE
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
ALEXANDER POPE There are times when I think, if I were a bit more famous, life could be easier in terms of work bec...
ALEXANDER HANSON I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.
ALEXANDER LEBEDEV Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is ho...
ALEXANDER PAYNE
Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or ...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN That's not to say we won't hear an aircraft occasionally, but the national standard for noise compat...
ALAN ALEXANDER It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms comin...
ALAN ALEXANDER Insurgents used to mortar the thing every day. Luckily, it was a very large base and they were very ...
ALAN ALEXANDER I had some personal reservations about, 'Can I do the job?' But I had no reservations about being mo...
ALAN ALEXANDER When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done.
ALAN ALEXANDER
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
ALEXANDER POPE
England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty pla...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresp...
ALEXANDER BERKMAN
Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion
ALEXANDER CHASE
A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed
ALEXANDER CHASE
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
ALEXANDER CHASE
To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmil...
ALEXANDER CHASE
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible
ALEXANDER CHASE
Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the so...
ALEXANDER CHASE
A man's home is his wife's castle
ALEXANDER CHASE
Memory is the thing you forget with
ALEXANDER CHASE
People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
ALEXANDER CHASE
Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.
ALEXANDER CHASE
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
ALEXANDER POPE
How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
ALEXANDER POPE
Reason, however able, cool at best,
Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,
Stays til...
ALEXANDER POPE
Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know?
ALEXANDER POPE We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
ALEXANDER COMFORT My two favorite movies are 'Coming to America' and 'Boomerang'.
SHAUN ALEXANDER
A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is...
ALEXANDER POPE
Lely on animated canvas stole
The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
ALEXANDER POPE
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPE
Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE
If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd...
ALEXANDER POPE
But if
We have such another victory, we are undone.
ALEXANDER POPE
The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
ALEXANDER POPE
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
ALEXANDER POPE
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
ALEXANDER POPE
What riches give us let us then inquire:
Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ...
ALEXANDER POPE
Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place.
ALEXANDER POPE
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, wh...
JAIMIE ALEXANDER
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon
the rights of others.
ALEXANDER POPE
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will,
And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
ALEXANDER POPE
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
ALEXANDER POPE
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
ALEXANDER POPE
Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
ALEXANDER HERZEN
Most women have no characters at all.
ALEXANDER POPE
Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fil...
ALEXANDER POPE All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know t...
ALEXANDER TROCCHI
Most authors steal their works, or buy.
ALEXANDER POPE
Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
ALEXANDER POPE
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T...
ALEXANDER POPE
Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
ALEXANDER POPE
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own ...
ALEXANDER POPE
I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a...
ALEXANDER POPE
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
ALEXANDER POPE