"I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum."

-- James Boswell

#Ambition Quotes #Vanity Quotes #Manners Quotes

“I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.”
“Got some, dirt on my shoulder, could you brush it off for me?”
“I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.”
“I came in rather late in the casting process of Reaper. I believe they had all the other roles cast. They were having trouble finding the devil. They had seen almost 100 actors for the role. I got the script and I liked it - it was clever and witty and very, very funny, and a nice, fresh take on an old story. I went in and did a scene for the producers, the kitchen scene from the pilot where I'm cooking a chicken-fried steak. At the end of it, they all had a smile on their face, and they realized they had found their devil.”
“I think in the darkest moments, we need a break.”
“Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left.”
“This is the difference between conservatives and liberals. Liberals want justices to vote a certain way. We [ conservatives] want a particular legal philosophy, a philosophy for how to interpret the Constitution.”
“God being infinite beauty, the soul united to Christ draws upon himself the admiring and tender gaze of the Angels, who, were they capable of any passion, would be filled with envy at his lot.”

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