Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

Oliver Goldsmith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: November 10, 1730 - April 4, 1774

Topics

HappyViewMorePassHoursThan

You realize as you get older that tomorrow is not guaranteed for anybody.

John McLaughlin

TomorrowYouRealizeGetOlder

The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.

Ann Voskamp

RealImagineSomethingSacred

Getting a gun should be easy for good people and impossible for bad people. The only trick is telling the difference.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

GoodPeopleImpossibleBad People

I don't think we're at the point where most people are willing to get rid of body parts and replace them, but then again, people who shoot lasers in their eyes come out with better-than-perfect vision.

John Scalzi

VisionEyesPeopleThinkBodyOut

I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington.

Steve Israel

WashingtonPossibleTryAlwaysGoing

I like the Carpenters and Elvis.

Sia

LikeElvis

What you don't get necessarily at drama school is a gigantic mix of people. At university, there's people from every social background, and you get to go through that period of being naive and not quite sure who you're going to be.

Tom Riley

SchoolPeopleYouDramaGoNaive

I learned how to turn it on and turn it off. You learn that in theater, too, but for film work, I learned from doing 'Henry,' I learned how to leave work at work and go home. There's always spillover. Actors speak of this.

Michael Rooker

WorkHomeSpeakLearnDoingYou

If you really want change, no one else is going to make that for you. It's all mental at first. Once you overcome that mental part, your body can do anything.

Luke James

ChangeYouBodyWantYour Body

I tell my students that if you have enough preparation, you can handle the big interviews. You won't be intimidated.

Lowell Bergman

PreparationEnoughYouTellBig

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

Judy Collins

I AmFunMeWritingSorryStop

As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there's no rigour to it.

Jonathan Stroud

ChildReadingEndDoingFantasyOld

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