Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

Henry David Thoreau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

Topics

LifeNatureSayHumanHuman Life

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

Robert Half

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I feel like I had a great career. Had some big games... I feel like I had a great time.

Metta World Peace

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I want to do a book called 'Shopping and Cooking for One with Tony Danza,' where I will show you how to shop. And, by the way, it should be a movement, because there are many single people in this world. You go to the supermarket, and you need celery, you gotta buy a whole head of celery. It's very difficult for single people.

Tony Danza

CookingPeopleShoppingWorldBook

I'm not a musical theatre person, and I never will be, especially after seeing the way it operates. It's so incredibly inefficient. It takes three weeks to effect a change. It can be a lighting change, a script change, a musical change - you have to meet with six different departments, and about a month later, it may happen.

Roger Taylor

ChangeTheatreYouSeeingPerson

I wasn't making any money, but I didn't feel unsuccessful because of that. You can do that in New York but not in Hollywood. In Hollywood, it is how much money you make.

Mary Steenburgen

MoneyNew YorkFeelYouNewBecause

Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking. I often feel like I have to go back to that 17-year-old Chris Crutcher, and that forms the core voice. I can draw on teens from 1964 to 2001 to find a part of the voice I need.

Chris Crutcher

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In 'Spinal Tap,' there's the fake historical quality of 'Stonehenge.' It's something the musicians look at with a mystical reverence. In folk music, it's the seriousness with which these people approach their 'art.'

Christopher Guest

MusicArtQualityPeopleFakeLook

What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?

Cornelius Vanderbilt

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The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

Anthony Trollope

HabitReadingFadeEnjoymentOnly

I think sometimes a part requires more than one approach or thought.

Ali Fazal

ThinkThoughtSometimesMoreThan

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Phil Donahue

ProblemSolutionSuicidePermanent

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

Todd Gitlin

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