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Will Durant Quotes

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

Will Durant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: November 5, 1885 - November 7, 1981

Topics

Best People Earth Events Sixty Last

To my way of thinking, passive management of file assets is okay for screwing around with iPads, where we're mainly watching TV on Netflix or obsessive-compulsively checking the popularity of our Instagram uploads.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Management Thinking Netflix Way Okay

Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful, the appealingly personal, and the genuinely interesting.

Amy Bloom

Happiness Confused Interesting Get

Even if you haven't seen 'The Seventh Seal,' you've seen it. The influence is so vast and insidious, every image of a black-robed, white-faced Death is a rip or parody of 'The Seventh Seal.'

Steve Erickson

Death Influence You Image Seen Even

There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.

Jonathan Shapiro

Teacher Great Who Interested He

Of my English friends, I should find language too poor to speak the just praise and the excellence which shines in their characters and lives.

Dorothea Dix

Excellence Speak Language Friends

I'm a lot more serious on the court. I'm probably a lot more intense than some of these guys thought I would be. Off the court, I'm a totally different dude. But my passion's to win, and I'm a perfectionist out there.

Chauncey Billups

Passion Win Thought Serious More

Obviously, the easiest recipes are the most successful when it comes to the home cook, because they're not intimidated by them. If I'm doing 'Boy Meets Grill,' and I do something very simple like grilled hamburgers or steaks or chicken, those are the most sought-after recipes.

Bobby Flay

Home Simple Doing Boy Chicken Cook

I love to cook, and I've just gotten more and more into it over the years, just because it's the best way to stay creative.

Brie Larson

Love Best Creative Just Because Way

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Solitude Find My Own Own Core Only

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

Swami Sivananda

Motivational You Will Follow Craving

It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.

Nikki Sixx

Trying Athlete Thirty Years Very

I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.

Leonard Slatkin

Hands Want Sound Shape Sculptor Use