Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

DiseaseTemperamentArtisticAfflicts

In the first State of the Union of his second term, President Bush made clear to Americans tonight that he is not going to play the role of a lame duck President.

Jim Sensenbrenner

DuckPlayPresidentFirstGoing

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

LifeResultImportant

I like L.A., but it's just too many people in the same business everywhere you go. You lose perspective.

Joel Kinnaman

BusinessPerspectivePeopleYouLose

I'm Andrea Thompson, and unless you've been living in a cave, you probably already know that.

Andrea Thompson

YouKnowLivingCaveBeenUnless

Despite demand, the BlackBerry avoided offering generalized web browsing support.

Steven Sinofsky

SupportWebDemandOfferingDespite

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Socrates

ValuesIllusionTrueNothingSound

You can't patent a move. It's challenging enough to come up with a move that nobody else does... I try and do things that I would want to see done that I haven't seen other people do. Most wrestlers obviously don't think that way, and instead they steal somebody's move as soon as they've gone on to the next company.

Rob Van Dam

PeopleThinkEnoughYouNobodyDone

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

Russell Brand

JustLabelBad-BoyAssumption

I've tested for I-don't-know-how-many pilots, and I didn't get any of them. I would always try to go off the top and make it as spontaneous as possible, but acting in sitcoms is such a skill set, and I didn't have it. I wish I did back when I was younger.

Michael Pena

WishBackActingGoSkillPossible

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you are skinny, aren't you?' I said: 'Honey, I'd like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.'

Lou Holtz

BeachWifeMeBetterYouHoney

I'd love to be in the ring with guys like Goldberg, Brock Lesnar, and The Undertaker, as, no matter what they've done, I know how good my conditioning is. If those three can say the same thing, I'd love to go and hang with them because I don't think they could hang with me.

Dolph Ziggler

LoveGoodMeThinkKnowThree

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

HateI CanWorstSameWorst Thing

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