Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936

Topics

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I feel open to anything.

Jimmy Iovine

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I worked at The Old Globe Theater under the great baton of Craig Noel. One of the great theater heroes that we have. He was so great and so inspirational. I think I did 'Antony and Cleopatra' and 'The Taming of the Shrew'. I lived in Ocean Beach, and my rent was $140 a month.

Jeffrey Tambor

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I own one movie by fellow Swede Ingmar Bergman, because I have to. You can't be a movie critic with a collection of six or seven hundred DVDs that includes everything from 'Tokyo Story' to 'Poison Ivy: The New Seduction' and not have a Bergman movie.

Steve Erickson

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Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Stephen Sondheim

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I do speak my mind a lot more than when I was younger. I guess that's just my Polynesian background. That's how we are: just sit back and try and fit in, try and make everyone else happy.

Sonny Bill Williams

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Being a woman has helped my career more than it's hindered it.

Mildred Dresselhaus

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Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible.

Luc Montagnier

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I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I'd literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It's been great. I'm based in New York, and every day, it's amazing.

Diego Klattenhoff

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I think of myself as a Russophile. I speak the language and studied the nation's literature and history in college.

Chrystia Freeland

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You can't trademark the word 'sci-fi.'

Bonnie Hammer

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The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

Arthur Koestler

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What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.

Mark Spitz

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