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Thomas Carlyle Quotes

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: scottish
Birth: December 4, 1795 - February 5, 1881

Topics

Teacher Become University Professors

I feel compelled not to pass on a vision of bleakness, destruction or cynicism. I want to tell the truth as I see it, but I also have to believe that individuals - my kids, your kids, whoever - can do something about it, and I want to show the ways in which they can do something about it.

John Edgar Wideman

Truth Vision Believe Feel Want See

The key to proving that there's a black hole is showing that there's a tremendous amount of mass in a very small volume. And you can do that with the motions of stars.

Stars Small Black Key You Proving

Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you.

Life You Choose Things Nightmares

Love every role to be new, and I always like to bring a freshness to every character I play, but that comes down to the script. So, it's important that it's a good script with good, truthful characters and truthful subjects.

Aneurin Barnard

Love Good Character Down Play New

Law enforcement officials have been candid in identifying ways officers could have handled the situation in Ferguson better, and I trust those recommendations will be helpful as we continue to count on them to protect us.

Trust Law Law Enforcement Candid

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Work Healing Medicine Miracles Ill

I've always been a good mother, but I've always been in show business, and I've been on stage, and I don't bake cookies and I don't stay home.

Debbie Reynolds

Good Mother Home Business Cookies

I'm not afraid to look bad on the screen.

Look Bad Afraid Screen

Things we write down are the fragments shored against our ruins. They outlast us, these scraps of words on paper. Like the detritus from the tsunami washing up on the other side of the ocean, writing is what can be salvaged.

Ocean Words Writing Down Write Side

Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that.

Wynton Marsalis

Stars Day End Aesthetic Musicians

To marry is to get a binocular view of life.

Life View Get Marry

I haven't been in tennis for that long, but what I can say is that we have a lot of young guys at the top who are willing to do a lot of good things for tennis in general.

Good Good Things Long I Can Young

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