Wilkie Collins Quotes

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.

Wilkie Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: January 8, 1824 - September 23, 1889

Topics

SocietyFoolsImportantProsperity

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

John Polkinghorne

GodEverythingAgainstIdeaTyrant

I'm extremely busy and running around requires a lot of energy.

Stephen Chow

EnergyBusyRunningAroundLot

An elite is someone who's for themselves and not for the country.

Steve Bannon

SomeoneCountryEliteThemselves

In England and Germany, perhaps, there is more of a focus on the physical side of the game, in breaking down the opposition's play, especially against the lower placed sides.

Toni Kroos

FocusGameDownPlayMoreSides

I think, for an artiste, it's important to be aware of world cinema.

Roop Durgapal

WorldThinkCinemaImportantAware

When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.

Mike Singletary

FamilyColdStrongEndYouLook

In the early 1990s, Americans used their home phone lines to connect their desktop computers to the Internet via ISPs like AOL, Earthlink, or Netzero. Back then, the ISPs didn't have cost-effective technology to select particular sites for blocking or privileging.

Marvin Ammori

HomeTechnologyComputersInternet

By Hollywood standards I'm still fat: until you are zero, you are big. I do get cold a lot now. I used to have a lot of layers - now I got to get a fur coat.

Lisa Lampanelli

ColdFatYouNowHollywoodBig

We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.

Jose Saramago

WorldCapitalismShortPossibleJust

I believe in Father Frost. But not too deeply. But anyway, you know, I'm not one of those people who are able to tell the kids that Father Frost does not exist.

Dmitry Medvedev

FatherPeopleBelieveYouKnowTell

I don't want to be all power and muscle.

Shawn Johnson

PowerWantMuscle

Old age is a woman's hell.

Ninon de L'Enclos

AgeWomanOld AgeHellOld

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