Samuel Pepys Quotes

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Samuel Pepys

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 23, 1633 - May 26, 1703

Topics

SmileManHappyMeWorldWhole

My family's a ruling family.

Aminatta Forna

FamilyRuling

I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.

Tony Goldwyn

IntelligenceFeelEnoughCredit

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

Rita Dove

TimeShadowCuriousThinkSound

If you observe children with sufficient objectivity as they grow into the world, then you will perceive that children's temporal bodies are still not fully connected with the spirit-soul. The task of education, understood in a spiritual sense, is to bring the soul-spirit into harmony with the temporal body.

Rudolf Steiner

EducationChildrenSpiritualWorld

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

Michael Morpurgo

WriteUpFictionThingsMake

For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.

Mo Yan

ArmyWorryEnoughSurvivalCountry

The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately.

Jonathan Kozol

MoneyNowEqualLowLevelGreater

Pandering to the scandal hungry public is a total lack of responsible journalism.

Dick Van Dyke

JournalismResponsibleHungryScandal

I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious.

Diablo Cody

LoveMoreOpenJustBlankReally

I was dirt-poor. I could barely hold down a job. Eventually, though, I started getting small parts on shows like 'Smallville,' 'Supernatural'... and lots of really bad sci-fi movies. I was running around the woods in wolf contacts, covered in fake blood made out of pancake syrup, roaring.

Cory Monteith

JobSmallWoodsWolfFakeBad

When art has changed, it's because the world was changing.

Corita Kent

ArtWorldBecauseChangingChanged

I always had amazing food around the dinner table, a beautiful house to live in, cool clothes to wear to school, and help with my homework. I am so lucky.

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

LiveBeautifulFoodSchoolI Am

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