Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Oliver Goldsmith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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If you're talking about a world in which everybody is connected by computers 24 hours a day, that exists right now.

John Cabrera

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It took me five years to realize what I could do with my voice. No Auto-Tune - cut all that off.

Jeremih

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If, in a few months, I'm only number 8 or number 10 in the world, I'll have to look at what off-the-court work I can do. I will need to do something if I want to be number 1.

John McEnroe

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I'm so tired of the privacy advocates.

Robert Scoble

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The first 13 years of my life, I lived in China. My parents were missionaries there, and I was an only child. Often I felt lonely and out of place. Writing for me became my private place, where no one could come.

Jean Fritz

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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams

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I have, on the other hand, felt ill will from various people in the industry and the press.

Rob Lowe

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Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

Robert Winston

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Oh, I have five kids; I have plenty of abundance.

Liz Cheney

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Judi Dench should be ashamed of herself for being so talented and working so much.

Judy Parfitt

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I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.

Douglass North

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I think girls especially get so caught up in thinking like, 'Oh I have to be prim or proper or fun and sunshiny' when, like, you can be literally anything. You can be mannish; you can do whatever, and it's acceptable.

Dove Cameron

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