Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

EducationPurposePeopleCommon

It's amazing how powerful a piece of work can be and how it can influence people and change. It's pretty interesting.

Mel Gibson

WorkChangePeopleAmazingInfluence

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

Steve Jobs

WorkJobSpacePeopleOrganization

My mom always made sure I lived my life as a regular kid.

Soleil Moon Frye

LifeMomMy LifeKidAlwaysLived

My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot.

Tommy Hilfiger

MotherMeKindSheAlwaysTake

Reading is how I became an actor because I didn't grow up in a house where there was an awareness of film or theater. I also grew up in a house full of teachers, so reading was big in our world.

Mary Steenburgen

WorldReadingGrowHouseActorBig

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

Lou Reed

ArtistI CanWantEgotisticalMeans

'Blueprint 3' is made up of songs, but it's also a commentary on the idea that in order for rap to survive, we have to stretch out the drama. We have to stretch out the audience. It can't be this narrow - we have to stretch out the point of view.

Jay-Z

SurviveViewPoint Of ViewDramaOut

I've always thought that people who left a great deal of money in their will never enjoyed the great honor and privilege and heart-rendering feeling of giving to others during their lifetime, because they were too selfish to give to others while they were alive, so they made sure they were dead and couldn't use it anymore.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

GreatMoneyPeopleSelfishThought

I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I see at least the prose elements of scriptwriting.

Jonathan Ames

WritingKindRightAlwaysSeeI See

The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.

Dhani Harrison

MusicMeGuitarWantWillWay

People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.

Bob Iger

LoveChangeGoodPeopleStoryThink

I started my work on a lot of the 'Batman' books. So I've worked on a 'Batman,' 'Spider-Man,' some of the 'X-Men' books.

Brian Stelfreeze

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