Joseph Addison Quotes

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Joseph Addison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 1, 1672 - June 17, 1719

Topics

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If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

Andrew Garfield

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Actually, I've gotten myself into some difficult places because I thought I could fix somebody.

Melissa McBride

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If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more.

Anna Benson

MeYouWantMoreTellSomething

We push players beyond their limits and expectations every day. We ask them to take risks. Sometimes, as coaches, we have to remember to do that with our decisions, too.

Jeff Fisher

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I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.

Simon Pegg

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Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

Trey Anastasio

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A good song should give you a lot of images; you should be able to make your own little movie in your head to a good song.

Tom Petty

GoodSongYouHeadLittleOwn

There are comedians that I like. I think a lot of it, you just figure out on your own. It's definitely one of those things that you get good at by doing it a lot. But I like Jim Gaffigan. Patton Oswalt. Janeane Garofalo.

Michael Showalter

GoodThinkDoingYouOutOwn

I like when an audience doesn't know what's going to happen to a character, and I like when I don't know. I'm learning, too - I don't get the script, like, until the last day.

Miriam Shor

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I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.

Dinesh D'Souza

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If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

EducationTimeLearnAnythingWould

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

Christy Turlington

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