Quotes About Richard Ii

#1. I want to know everything there is to know about Lewis and Clark. And I want to do the Sunday crossword in less than an hour. I want to be the best dad in the world. I want to play Richard II, and I want to win another Tony award.

Robert Sean Leonard

#2. I have felt some twinges recently, about parts I wanted to play that I may be getting too old and fat to do. 'Hamlet,' for example - maybe that's gone. I would love to play Richard II.

Matthew Macfadyen

#3. Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark? Or why the barons ganged up on Richard II?

Edward Abbey

#4. I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard II at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival.

Ian McKellen

#5. All places that the eye of heaven visits/ Are to a wise man ports and happy havens:/ Think not the king did banish thee:/ But thou the king.
Richard II

James Fenimore Cooper

#6. If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in 'Richard II' on stage was a huge physical workout, so I ended up more toned than I normally am.

Eddie Redmayne

#7. Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.

Barbara Tuchman

#8. But we remember that it was just precisely in the reign of Richard II that the Peasants' War, following upon the changes wrought by the visitations of the Great Plague, virtually destroyed serfdom as a personal status.

Edward Jenks

#9. Somewhere along the line, between the idealisms of youth and the realities of adulthood, we become pacified by our jobs; we tolerate how we hurt the world so that we can sustain our lives. At some point, blurred in the past, we traded the greater good for ourselves.

Richard Beckham II

#10. neither the NAACP nor any other predominantly African American organization filed an amicus brief challenging Japanese internment in the World War II case of Korematsu v. United States.

Richard Delgado

#11. Thus the great wind, the afflatus, gave breath and turbulence to all life; and inspiration clung to the minds and hearts of men.

Richard Beckham II

#12. I started to write: Langston deserves to be sick. But I erased that and wrote, Okay. I'll make him some.

Rachel Cohn

#13. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.

Zhuangzi

#14. Dwight D. Eisenhower, in my judgment, will go down in history as one of the four 'great' presidents since the U.S. reluctantly became an empire in World War II; Richard Nixon as the nearest to a sociopath by the time he was compelled to resign.

Nigel Hamilton

#15. You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.

Aaron Sorkin

#16. Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

John Muir

#17. If a frog is placed into a pot of boiling water it will immediately try to jump out; but if it's placed into a pot of cool water that's gradually heated until boiling, it will stay put and never try to jump out.

Richard Beckham II

#18. I was raised Catholic at a time when Vatican II was just taking hold.

Richard Montanari

#19. It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.

Ahmed Ben Bella

#20. It reminded Freddy of the World War II acronym, SNAFU. Situation normal, all fucked up.

Richard Phillips

#21. Once you open that door to a values conversation, it's going to undercut a right-wing economic agenda, which values wealth over work and favors the rich over the poor, or resorts to war as the first resort and not the last.

Jim Wallis

#22. AFFORESTATION (AFFORESTA'TION) n.s.[from afforest.] The charter de Foresta was to reform the encroachments made in the time of Richard I. and Henry II. who had made new afforestations, and much extended the rigour of the forest laws.Hales'sCommon Law of England.

Samuel Johnson

#23. The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything ... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Richard Holbrooke

#24. I don't think there's any honor bigger than going to your Hall of Fame for your sport.

Pete Rose

#25. A bit of advice: never read a pop-up book about giraffes.

Sean Lock

#26. 'Star Trek' is notorious for looting the more thoughtful work of writers for their striking effects, leaving behind most of the thought and subtlety.

Gregory Benford

#27. All men die in solitude; all values are degraded in a state of misery: that is what Shakespeare tells me

Eugene Ionesco

#28. Article II of the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon was just the simple fact that he talked about and suggested the potential use of the IRS against one or two political opponents.

Monica Crowley

#29. I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.

Donald Hall

#30. The term railway was to Victorian England what atomic or aerodynamic were to be after World War II, and network and virtual are today. When it came to investments, the romantic appeal of being a party to this technological revolution often dominated profit considerations.

Richard Bookstaber

#31. In the paintings I was always interested in taking elements of space and the reality that we know and dissolving it into patterns.

Francesca DiMattio

#32. World War II was a historical event, but also a movie genre, and 'Fury' occasionally prints the legend. The rest of it is plenty grim and grisly. Audience members may feel like prisoners of war forced to watch a training-torture film.

Richard Corliss

#33. You have but mistook me all the while ... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king?

William Shakespeare

#34. Ultimate insult that it's just business, it's politics, it's the way of the world, it's a tough life, and that it's nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal. QUELLCRIST FALCONER Things I Should Have Learned by Now Volume II There

Richard K. Morgan

#35. Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money.

Douglas Brinkley

#36. [When asked how many husbands she had had:] My own, or other people's?

Peggy Guggenheim

#37. I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

Bayard Rustin

#38. Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism ... neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the worlds greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy.

Richard Weikart

#39. I just want a quiet life. I think that's what everybody says when they get older.

Cherie Lunghi

#40. There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized ... Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your path at 32 or 42. One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course.

Conan O'Brien

#41. They fired director Richard Donner because they didn't want to pay him, and he's the reason the franchise became so successful in the first place. There's a big part of Superman II that he did that no one has ever seen.

Margot Kidder

#42. I like it when every pitch counts. There are a lot of people who see it as a negative, but I try to feed off it.

Eric Gagne