William Prynne Quotes

#1. I was raised that emotion was a good thing.

Jordan Peele

#2. People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Alice Walker

#3. Man is a vile creature!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.

Jeremy Renner

#5. Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness, or madness of man's depraved nature.

William Prynne

#6. If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.

John Stuart Mill

#7. Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see.

Sting

#8. The only time I've played a real baddy was when I was Regan in 'King Lear.'

Ashley Jensen

#9. A woman with cut hair is a filthy spectacle, and much like a monsterit being natural and comely to women to nourish their hair, which even God and nature have given them for a covering, a token of subjection, and a natural badge to distinguish them from men.

William Prynne

#10. I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. It will take an unprecedented act of courage, on a grand scale. You may have to do something virtually unknown in the annals of human history ... You may have to give up some of your most sacred beliefs ... let me make something clear.

Neale Donald Walsch

#12. It hath evermore been the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots, to ramble abroad to Plays, to Playhouses; whither no honest, chaste or sober Girls or Women, but only branded Whores and infamous Adulteresses, did usually resort in ancient times.

William Prynne

#13. The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.

Jo Nesbo

#14. Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.

Pharrell Williams

#15. If you nail a tool shed closed, how do you put the hammer away?

George Carlin

#16. If you cultivate a relationship in a genuine, thoughtful way, people will be more inclined to want to help you even though they don't have to help you.

Douglas Conant

#17. What does it mean to protest suffering, as distinct from acknowledging it?

Sontag, Susan

#18. Latinos are concerned about the same pocketbook issues that matter to most middle class Americans - creating good-paying jobs in this country, making sure our children get a quality education, and ensuring that our families have access to affordable and quality healthcare.

Linda Sanchez