[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!!… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of… — Carol Birch Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen, I remember my mum taking me to the posh clothes shop on London Road to get my first… — Cilla Black Copy Share Image
From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council,… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
I did a lot of musicals when I was young and finally went to drama school to try and get away from… — Stephen Moyer Copy Share Image
My dear friends you are a royal generation. You were preserved to come to the earth in this time for a special… — H. Burke Peterson Copy Share Image
The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream that beyond the… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
According to accounts of the Buddha's life, it would seem that he had a very deep relationship with nature. He was not… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
...but I’m trying to be inconspicuous.” Cinder considered telling him it wasn't working but thought better of it. The lack of a… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
Frequency generators have been around for decades. Royal Rife was using frequencies in the 1920's and 1930's to cure cancer. Today there… — Kevin Trudeau Copy Share Image
Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
I have been fortunate to have been brought up on a diet of adventure and privileged to take part in number of… — Pete Goss Copy Share Image
When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Yes, business really does change. 400 years ago, corporations were formed by royal decree. 300 years ago, many countries were powered by… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
I felt great calmness and perfect peace. I had the feelings of a poor man who has just come under the protection… — Christmas Evans Copy Share Image
I don't like the way people cherish the ghetto, as if it’s some royal palace, or kingdom. I also don't like the… — Delano Johnson Copy Share Image
But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I will remember the night I won the New Comedy Awards, as I was young and unformed, so that sticks in the… — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
I've done maybe twelve of Shakespeare's plays. I was with the Royal Shakespeare Company for years. Whatever influence that has never leaves… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its… — John Constable Copy Share Image
If you look at the First World War, the Kaiser was actually, actively buying a lot of the armaments from Britain! in… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
Corney & Barrow are proud to have the royal warrant, meaning that they provide the Palace with some of the greatest -… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
The truth was I'd given up waiting long ago. The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Purple light passed over the paper, but nothing happened. "Next!" Amy said. She was sure the man in black was going to… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Princess Diana talking to Prince William about the loss of her title Her Royal Highness: She turned to William in her distress.… — Paul Burrell Copy Share Image
In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
Two billion people watched the royal wedding. Clearly, they're interested in that - the outside of what appears to be lives that… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember watching Mike [Michael Jordan]. I remember him having a royal blue blazer and all black t-shirt and he came out… — Iman Shumpert Copy Share Image
My father, who was a sergeant in the RAF during the Second World War, was killed in a hitchhiking accident while returning… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return… — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
![“[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal…” quote by Frederick Douglass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/56b/frederick-douglass-859_ability_allowing-only-ordinary-ability-and-oppor_1706719.jpg)
![“My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature - the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry - painting or anything else... my execution annoys most of them and all…” quote by John Constable](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f10/john-constable-11301_academy_my-picture-a-boat-passing-a-lock-1823-6_1324899.jpg)
![“I remember watching Mike [Michael Jordan]. I remember him having a royal blue blazer and all black t-shirt and he came out of a blue Corvette. That was dope to us. We were like, 'Yo, Michael killed today.' He didn't even talk to the media and walked straight into the arena. Everyday's like Mike.” quote by Iman Shumpert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0b8/iman-shumpert-2849_all-black_i-remember-watching-mike-michael-jordan_701419.jpg)
![“[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the primitive purity, and shortness, when men deliver'd so many things, almost in an equal number of words. They have exacted from all their…” quote by Thomas Sprat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a68/thomas-sprat-35591_all-things_in-the-royal-society-there-has-been-a-co_1937927.jpg)