Goldwin Smith Quotes

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

Goldwin Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: August 13, 1823 - June 7, 1910

Topics

HumanityObservationRealBe Real

There are dedicated actors and there are people now who only stay famous for putting on weight, losing it, then putting it on again.

Joe Dempsie

LosingPeopleFamousNowStayAgain

Maybe because I'm a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

Anna Netrebko

LifeSweetLadyDarkPersonNice

My dad likes to take the mickey out of me for saying everything is 'amazing.'

Amy Nuttall

AmazingMeSayingEverythingOut

Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.

Amanda Palmer

DressPeopleAssumptionsImagePoint

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.

Stacy Keach

HurtCareerPossibleDidSelection

Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest.

Tom Glazer

FriendTimeSongFriendsNowFirst

We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet.

Mike Davidson

PageImportantSizeMayAbleCode

A funny thing happens when you go to another country or invest in a company from another country. Suddenly everyone in that community realizes that YC is for them, too.

Michael Seibel

FunnyCommunityYouCountryGo

I kind of like '2001.'

Miles Heizer

KindLike

I went from being pretty fit to 230 lbs., which isn't, like, the biggest for being 6-feet-tall, but I had been 165 lbs. just three months prior. That taught me a lot about how people treat you differently when you're fit and when you're bigger.

Jonathan Van Ness

PeopleMeTreatYouThreeBigger

I can access emotions very easily.

Allison Janney

I CanEmotionsAccessVeryEasily

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Winston Churchill

TruthWarTruth IsSheAlwaysLies

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