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William R. Alger Quotes

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

William R. Alger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1823 - 1905

Topics

Mind Appreciate Genius Exercise Use

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

John Crowe Ransom

Now Sober Nonsense Far Excess Poets

People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music.

Michael Franti

Music Politics People Understand

I'm a proud New Zealander, and I represent Paralympics New Zealand. I love what I do, and I do it because I love it. The passion is unbelievable in every race I do. I have the ambition to change things outside the pool, too.

Sophie Pascoe

Love Change Passion Ambition Proud

Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be.

Robert Altman

Women Men Clothes Make Like Most

My peers and colleagues inspire me.

Robin Chase

Me Colleagues Inspire Peers

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

Miguel de Icaza

Too Much Nice Build Way Empower

As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my home while, snug and secure, I looked down in wonder at the great carpet of life that seemed so perfect beneath me.

Michael Leunig

Life Home Great Child Me Fly

One person's car is another person's scenery.

Jonathan Ive

Car Scenery Person Another

I love 'Star Wars,' you know, and I can't remember the last story meeting I've been in where 'Star Wars' wasn't referenced. It's so perfect in so many ways.

Jon Favreau

Love Story Remember You Perfect

I told people I was going to be a wrestler, and they fell down laughing.

Diamond Dallas Page

People Down Going Laughing Wrestler

However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.

Claire Danes

Career Place Comfortable Celebrity

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

William Howard Taft

Progress Better New Without Things