William Gilbert Quotes

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

William Gilbert

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 18, 1836 - May 29, 1911

Topics

TrustMeWorldChanceWishYou

I grew up Presbyterian, just a basic Protestant upbringing. There were years in my life when I would go to church every Sunday and to Sunday school. Then I just phased out of it.

Andy Dick

LifeSchoolChurchMy LifeSunday

I suppose I became in danger of overexposure, which is why, I think, doing theatre for a year is quite a sensible move - just to remember what it's all about, really.

Tom Goodman-Hill

TheatreThinkDoingRememberYear

It's my own personal hang-up, but I find adults who are picky eaters to be the worst. I don't mean food allergies or preferences: I mean picky eaters. We all know one, and they're impossible to go to lunch with or invite over for a dinner party.

Rumaan Alam

FoodLunchDinnerImpossibleFind

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

Russell Baker

HeartLightEnjoyYouHeavyVerse

Don Cornelius gave me an incredulous look regarding my accent. I lessened it; he gave a nod of approval. Instantly, I felt ashamed. I had made my first conscious effort not to sound ethnic.

Rosie Perez

EffortMeLookSoundFirstAshamed

I'll stay in my house and watch 'Lockup,' the prison show.

Missy Elliott

PrisonHouseWatchStayShow

I was raised middle-class in a small town. I have all my same friends from high school. I'm close with my family. I'm dating a normal girl. So I want to feel people think I'm a man of the people. Because I feel that way.

Miles Teller

FamilyGirlManDatingSchoolSmall

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

Dorothy Height

YourselfBoatYouWillNeedSee

I am tired of people using 'diverse' to mean 'of color.' That's not what that word means. 'Diversity' means people of all different races, all together - like a New York City subway.

Courtney A. Kemp

TogetherDiversityNew YorkTired

Someone putting down $25 of his or her hard-earned money to buy my product, then doing it again because they felt the payoff was worth it. That's as good as it gets for an author.

Brad Thor

GoodMoneySomeoneDoingWorthDown

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Phyllis McGinley

HeartWordsSilenceAnythingLike

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

Thomas Mann

DisgustingHow

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