"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration."
William Hazlitt(04/10/1778 – 09/18/1830)
English writer
"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration."
William Hazlitt
"One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune."
General Lew Wallace
"There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion."
William Booth
"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light."
Joseph Pulitzer
"Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees."
Frances Perkins
"We work in the toy department."
Jimmy Cannon
"A calcined, scalped, rasped, scraped, flayed, broiled, powdered, leprous, blotched, mangy, grimy, parboiled country without trees, water, grass, fields... it is infinitely liker hell than earth, and one looks for tails among the people."
Algernon Charles Swinburne
"We called him 'mumbles.' He didn't speak his words very loud. The sound man was always saying, 'Kid, speak up!' But he mumbled his way to a fortune."
Sheb Wooley
"Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!"
Dolores Huerta
"You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?"
Kahlil Gibran
"Working gets in the way of living."
Omar Sharif
"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live."
Henry van Dyke
"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer."
John Madden
"It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high."
Steven Seagal
"It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste."
Evelyn Waugh
"I try to keep away from being bigheaded. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their life. But there are several respected adult actors who were child actors that started very young. I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster. Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money."
Haley Joel Osment
"Without somebody to be somebody to, it was as though I wasn't somebody myself."
Michael Anthony Dorris