Horace Walpole Quotes

When a Frenchman reads of the garden of Eden, I do not doubt but he concludes it was something approaching to that of Versailles, with clipped hedges, berceaus, and trellis work.

Horace Walpole

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkDoubtGardenSomethingHeEden

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.

Jim Cramer

MeDirectionWrongOverConviction

There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat.

Jerry Nachman

PositiveTimeWarThinkPressure

Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right.

John Hickenlooper

StepOpinionCompromiseBackSerious

If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.

Michael Arndt

EndTalkingLongOpinionsYouWrite

People are really willing to believe in impossible things, which is really beautiful.

Michael Carbonaro

BeautifulPeopleImpossibleBelieve

Fanboys are a creator's blessing and curse. If a fanboy likes you, they love you. Obsessively. If you cross them with some plot point or story direction they reject, expect to be wholly and continually eviscerated across the Internet.

John Ridley

LoveBlessingStoryDirectionYou

I've always told my wife, 'Anytime I have an opportunity to be on something that I would watch even if I wasn't on it, that's when I get really, really giddy.'

Sterling K. Brown

OpportunityWifeAlwaysSomething

Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action.

Steve Bannon

GoodFearActionYouLeadGoing

Politics will take care of itself. I'm interested in people who are involved in the situations that politicians create. Politics is taken care of by politicians - they're not filmmakers.

Steven Rodney McQueen

PoliticsPeopleCareTake CareWill

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

Sigmar Polke

ArtChildDrawingPhotographyYoung

I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.

Simon Pegg

StoryThinkLaughYouKindPay

People think because you're private, you have something you don't want them to know.

Tom T. Hall

PeopleThinkYouKnowWantBecause

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