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Samuel Pepys Quotes

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

Samuel Pepys

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Business God Time Myself Money Mind

Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work.

John Carpenter

Work Hard Work Live Truth People

I was tired of getting last or fifth or sixth. I was tired of falling multiple times in a program. I was tired of competing differently than how I trained. If I was going to do that, why train so hard? I took a step back, and I figured out what I wanted to change about myself.

Max Aaron

Change Myself Step Tired Back Train

Michael Brown - when he lost his life, there was more focus on what he had done sometimes than what was done to him.

Angie Thomas

Life Focus Lost Done Sometimes More

I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.

Jeff Foxworthy

Daughter Giving Silly Down Summer

I wanted to see if you could put a prototype radio station on the Internet so you wouldn't have to invest $50 million or $100 million or $150 million to buy a transmitter and a frequency.

Tom Leykis

Internet You See Radio Buy Million

At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, I started taking psychology courses. I was interested in the nature of the human mind, the structure itself, pathologies with which it is afflicted. I really intended to be a writer all along, but I needed to take a subject that I could make a living at, either teaching it or doing it.

Roger Zelazny

Nature Mind Doing Living Human

People do need to stay healthy and eat right to keep the body fit and functioning. But, our sweet tooth is a part of this wonderful machine, so we have to honor it and spoil it from time to time... to time.

Ron Ben-Israel

Time People Sweet Honor Body Need

I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.

Ron Rash

Family Live Time Landscape Long

Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence.

Mary Quant

Confidence Memories Optimism Sixties

You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that.

Michael Palmer

Life God Power Mirror Day Medical

Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away.

Judd Hirsch

You Stage Away Just Throw Some

A friend of mine from New York asked me what I want to do, and I responded with, 'I want to make movies.' He responded with, 'Guess what? They're not making movies on Martha's Vineyard.' Literally ten minutes later, I was packing my bags.

Austin Stowell

Friend New York Me New Want Movies