William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 18, 1811 - December 24, 1863

Topics

LiveSucceedHorizonBetterGoal

I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.

Joanna Newsom

MusicThinkWriteInformedDifferent

My detractors would be mistaken to believe that the allegations against me that had no basis and were all lies would distract me. I continue to do my job.

Jejomar Binay

JobMeBelieveAgainstWouldLies

I use vinegars to deglaze saute pans for sublime sauces.

Andrew Zimmern

UseSublime

By the time people came to realize that free, Web-based email was indeed a hot idea, Hotmail was adding 1 million new subscribers a month.

Steve Jurvetson

TimePeopleFreeNewHotMonth

A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.

Tom Shales

DuckAttentionAttention SpanFellow

I like the variety of characters that you can play in films, rather than playing the same role for 10 years as you might on a sitcom.

Mo Collins

YouPlaySameYearsVarietyRole

In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.

Louis Adolphe Thiers

PoliticsSeriouslyNothingEverything

A license to practice law is not a license to violate it.

Loretta Lynch

PracticeLawLicenseViolate

Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.

Donna Karan

BusinessNumbersGoStuffNear

Theatrically seeing a movie with a group of people and having a collective experience has an authenticity that you can't get with your big screen television.

Christine Vachon

ExperiencePeopleYouSeeingGroup

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

Anthony Lewis

WarLawFreeConstitutionAmerica

I like to work. I'm glad; I'm privileged to have work.

William Hurt

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