Load Quotes - Page 16

• Though some may have more than others, yet every one hath his load, as much as he can carry. Every vessel cannot bear up with the like sail, and therefore God, to keep us from oversetting, puts on so much as will safest bring us to heaven, our desired port.

  Ezekiel Hopkins

  God, Heaven, May

  Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry) (1867). “The Works of Ezekiel Hopkins: Successively Bishop of Raphoe and Derry”, p.50

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• I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.

  Dennis Lehane

  Writing, Bars, Use

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• So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick - but at least I'd had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full.

  John Prescott

  Sick, Feelings, Chocolate

  John Prescott (2008). “Prezza: My Story: Pulling No Punches”

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• Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.

  Greg Walden

  Home, Fire, Community

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• 'El Otro Lado' has heavy emphasis on the bass and loads of nice little touches and sounds you really notice on a big system.

  Subb-an

  Nice, Sound, Bass

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• Reason dies collapsing under its own load.

  Bill Mallonee

  Culture, Christianity, Reason

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• When I get home after being away for work, my wife always stuffs the fridge with loads of what she calls 'nibbles' - all the great things you can eat straight from the fridge, like chunks of cheese, slices of ham, bowls of hummus.

  Alfred Molina

  Home, Wife, Cheese

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• Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite. The danger occurs when the debt is not repaid. Every minute spent on not-quite-right code counts as interest on that debt. Entire engineering organizations can be brought to a standstill under the debt load of an unconsolidated implementation, object-oriented or otherwise.

  Ward Cunningham

  Engineering, Organization, Long

  "The WyCash Portfolio Management System". OOPSLA conference, c2.com. March 26, 1992.

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• SPEAK OF TROUBLE highlights the abilities of Lowell Sostomi as singer/songwriter and brings together a talented band of musicians with amazing dexterity, loads of energy, and very original arrangements. Im impressed.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Together, Musician, Energy

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• The primary reason people seek job security is because that is what they are taught to seek, at home and at school..then with debt loads, they must cling even tighter to a job, or professional security, just to pay the bills.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Home, School

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• I'm a really hectic dreamer, I never wake up not out of a dream and there's loads going on, lots of action, big blockbuster dreams, they're all major enterprises.

  Linda Grant

  Dream, Wake Up, Action

  "Linda Grant: a life in writing". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2011.

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• There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concerts, and there are loads of museums and theaters.

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Museums, Scene, Theater

  "Bjorn Ulvaeus: ABBA star behind Mamma Mia". Interview with Gisella Deputato, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2009.

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• England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.

  Stephen Daldry

  Running, Silly, Garden

  "Stephen Daldry Dances to Success with 'Billy Elliot'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. October 17, 2000.

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• If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Bears, Burden, Crosses

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• Astride a horse I am not, nor camel-like carry a load,
  Subjects I have none, nor follow any sultan's code;
  I worry not for what exists, nor fret for what is lost,
  I breathe with extreme ease, and live at very little cost.

  Saadi

  Wisdom, Horse, Islamic

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• When you do bigger jobs there's more attention and when you film in New York you get loads of paparazzi everywhere. It affects your work because you're trying to think about the person you're acting with and you've got 20 other lenses taking pictures of you at the same time, and it throws you.

  Carey Mulligan

  Jobs, New York, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Men, Noble

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.570

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• That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne.

  Ovid

  Light, Cheerfulness

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• Some people can carry a tune, but they seem to stagger under the load.

  Richard Armour

  People, Tunes, Seems

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• Gauguin says that when sailors have to move a heavy load or raise an anchor, they all sing together to keep them up and give them vim. That's just what artists lack!

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Moving, Artist, Anchors

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• Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

  David Hockney

  Beauty, Hate, Artist

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• I did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting old if I'm naming work after Philip Larkin poems.

  Damien Hirst

  Song, Sex, Medicine

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• It?s not me to sleep with loads of men, but I do believe in having different experiences. At the end of the day, the nicest thing is the old-fashioned one-on-one.

  Mia Kirshner

  Believe, Sleep, Men

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• When you go to clubs in London there are loads of good-looking blokes, and I feel like a bit of a minger

  Lee Ryan

  Clubs, London, Looking Good

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• I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and you lose your identity.

  Alexander McQueen

  Believe, Mean, Identity

  "McQueen has designs on Africa for fall/winter 2000", www.cnn.com. May 15, 2000.

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