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Oswald Chambers Quotes

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Oswald Chambers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: theologian
Nationality: scottish
Birth: July 24, 1874 - November 15, 1917

Topics

Good Men Curious Book Language

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.

Jerry Garcia

Nice Sometimes Write Up Hang Hunter

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

Andrei Platonov

Home Future Country Class Working

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

John Woolman

Winter Time Myself Parents Improve

Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

Steve Martin

Music World You Look Kind Anything

Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!

Jay Leno

Today Valentine's Day Day Men Call

If you go to business school, and you put a product out there in the world, and it's working, the logic is to keep putting the same product out there. And I think that really bumps up against the creative process - and moviemaking, generally. And I think that our company really pushes against that.

Jason Blum

Business Creative School World Think

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

Jon Meacham

History Time Perspective Day Matter

I still have so much passion to perform... That's who Johnny Weir is: I'm a figure skater, I'm an athlete. I want to have fun and enjoy it.

Johnny Weir

Passion Fun Have Fun Enjoy Want Who

If you know what you're doing, it's not interesting. It has to be a challenge; it has to seem impossible and urgent to do it. And then you do it.

Claire Messud

Challenge Impossible Interesting You

I don't read fiction at all.

Brent Spiner

Fiction Read

I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.

William Shatner

Live Never Two Audience Month Front

I'm engaged: I'm interested in other people. I think that's just as important as knowing how to do the job.

Thomas Schlamme

Job People Think Important Knowing