Horace Walpole Quotes

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Horace Walpole

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 24, 1717 - March 2, 1797

Topics

HumorImaginationManSense Of Humor

Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.

Jennifer Aniston

MarriageBackOpeningBoxUpThings

I've met many journalists who impress me with their ability to play it straight. I think they're the exception to the rule.

Andrew Breitbart

MeThinkPlayImpressAbilityRule

We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.

Robert Redford

DayWayFirstYearsDidAfter

I grew up in suburban Brisbane, so to say you wanted to be an actor was a ridiculous concept.

Matt Passmore

YouRidiculousSayActorUpConcept

I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the 1970s. The pollution explosion was unstoppable. Global famine was inevitable. I genuinely want the next generation, my own kids, to know that actually it's possible that the future might be better than the past.

Matt Ridley

FuturePastMeWorldBetterKnow

My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.

Meshell Ndegeocello

LoveFatherMusicEyesTimeMe

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

Amy Clampitt

TimeAnxietyLongYouMadLong Time

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

Star Jones

MyselfWordsYouKnowNiceChicken

I believe innately in the human spirit being a powerful and positive thing. And that just comes out, whether you like it or not. It comes out in the writing.

Simon Beaufoy

PositiveWritingBelievePowerful

I definitely would say, by sixth grade, I was a professional shoplifter - and not because I wanted to. I'm not going out to shoplift earrings or clothes or shoes like the average teenager. I was shoplifting frozen dinners at a grocery store.

Lolo Jones

ShoesClothesProfessionalEarrings

When I'm not filming anything or on the road doing stand-up, I'm usually doing stand-up shows every night - usually a few shows a night at different clubs in the city.

Judah Friedlander

CityNightRoadDoingAnythingFew

I wouldn't necessarily say I'm arrogant. I'm just confident.

Draymond Green

ConfidentSayArrogantJust

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