William Shatner Quotes

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

William Shatner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: March 22, 1931

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I always tell my students, 'If you walk around with your eyes and ears open, you can't possibly live long enough to write all the novels you'll encounter.'

Jill McCorkle

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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.

John Burroughs

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Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

Jeanette Winterson

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Being tied down to a pre-med or engineering track would have slotted me into a very narrow group. Being a young filmmaker allowed me to explore many areas of life and many kinds of people.

Anand Mahindra

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I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier.

Steven Weber

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Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace.

Trip Hawkins

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Miguel de Cervantes

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I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.

Phil Donahue

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It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped.

Phil Robertson

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I'm really excited for people to be able to see what else I can do besides high heels and magic powers.

Serinda Swan

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Not to be purple, but I've never been a 'bad boy' kind of girl. I like manners.

Toks Olagundoye

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I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is I'm very comfortable on stage, so a large portion of my act did come from ad-libs.

Ricky Jay

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