Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 22, 1694 - March 24, 1773

Topics

BeautyTimeFlyingHoursSwiftBrow

I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in the south of France, which is a sort of indulgence, as we only use it for about four weeks a year. The rest of the time, it is chartered out to people as a business.

John Caudwell

BusinessTimeMyselfPeopleFlyOut

I do a happy dance even when I get a guest-star role.

Robert Knepper

DanceHappyGetRoleEven

I do what I want and don't care about the others.

Mauro Icardi

CareWantOthersAbout

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

Amy Smart

MeBehaviorActingHuman Behavior

The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.

Steven Sinofsky

WorkBestCreativeTeamProblemBig

As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.

Tracy Morgan

LifeChildBetterKnowAbleWanted

I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that what is really going on in Britain is a growing sense of alienation. People don't feel anyone listens to them.

Tony Benn

ChildrenTimePoliticsPeopleThink

What I hear from employers day in and day out is, 'I need to make sure I have that skilled workforce to compete.' And so we've been able to help so many people punch their ticket to the middle class by transforming our workforce development system for advanced manufacturing jobs and other critical jobs that exist right now.

Tom Perez

DayPeopleHelpClassDevelopment

I'm not interested in making folkloric records, but I like to push the traditional format around so that familiar patterns get knocked on the head.

Ry Cooder

PushHeadPatternsGetKnockedLike

I think the people that want to fly in space, who want to work in space, who want to go to station, these people realize that there is a risk inherent to what they do. They understand that there are possible off-nominal situations, dangerous situations in space, and there's no insurance against that.

Roman Romanenko

WorkSpacePeopleFlyThinkWant

A thing may fail as a poem because it tries to do what a poem cannot do: it tries to become a treatise on cosmic truth... We can best be exact about the cosmic things - God and truth, beauty, eternity and love - by not talking directly about them.

Miller Williams

LoveBeautyGodTruthBestTalking

I'm 41 now and the right knee has got a bit of a twinge in it. I get about the stage a little less now.

Jay Kay

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