Herman Melville Quotes

There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

Herman Melville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891

Topics

ManDeepHelpWrongWantNeed

I don't understand capri pants. They seem like neither here nor there.

Jesse Eisenberg

UnderstandPantsSeemHereLikeNor

Starting a successful company is one of the hardest things anyone does.

Andrew Yang

CompanyStartingThingsSuccessful

I think it's critical that you feel you're working for a person who is committed to advancing your career.

Andrea Jung

ThinkFeelYouCareerPersonYour

I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.

Mayim Bialik

BigBeingWellKidsReallyWorks

I eat way too fast.

John Lithgow

FastWayEatToo

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

John Lydon

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I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

Michael Douglas

PictureNeverAlwaysNextStarted

The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

Sue Monk Kidd

GodSelfCreationTrueTrue Self

By the way, you won't put that thing in about me wanting to have sex on a football pitch, will you?

Louise Nurding

FootballMeYouSexWillWay

I've always wanted to be a dad. I just can't wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I've become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect.

Josh Duhamel

WaitThinkPerfectWantBecomeRat

All roads lead to 'American Pie.' 'As American as apple pie' was the saying. It was some kind of a big American song that I wanted to write, which would be a conclusion for my show and bring all the songs home, which it still does. I can go anywhere I want with American music and come home to that. And it all makes sense.

Don McLean

HomeMusicRoadsSongSayingApple

After that initial success, every chance we got we'd hire that remote recording truck and just record stuff at the Whisky because it was so inexpensive.

Johnny Rivers

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