Spoil Quotes - Page 10

• Isaiah the prophet, Isaiah's second son was - his symbolic name was Mahershalalhashbaz. And Isaiah was - the Prophet Isaiah was instructed to write the name in all capital letters as a prophecy. And it means hasten to the spoils, speedy as the prey.

  Mahershala Ali

  Writing, Mean, Son

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away.

  Geri Halliwell

  Art, Fun, Analysis

  "This much I know". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2008.

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• Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Health, Loss

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• My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you'd just spoil it to know it.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Thinking, Unhappy, Ridiculous

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• Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Political, Principles, Fiction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1913). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Natural, Theism, Science And Religion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1959). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

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• Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Zest, Giving

  Lewis Carroll (2001). “Jabberwocky and Other Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

  Euripides

  Marriage, Winning, Men

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.149, University of Chicago Press

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• Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

  Gilbert Highet

  Teaching, Effort, Energy

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.

  Billy Crystal

  Kids, Hands, Play

  "Billy Crystal: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2013.

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• No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.

  Elihu Root

  Desire, Nations

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Up to the age of five, children should be given a lot of love. From the age of five to fifteen they should be brought up under strict discipline especially regarding their study. It is at that time that life's foundation is formed. Love without discipline will only spoil them. Above the age of fifteen children should be given maximum love otherwise they may go astray.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Kids, Discipline

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• As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Son, Giving

  Martin Luther (1892). “Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther”

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• I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

  Alexander Downer

  Hate, Kissing, Approach

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

  David Gilmour

  Interpretation, Listeners, Limitation

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• Hatred, jealousy, and fear hinder peace of mind. When you're angry or unforgiving, for example, your mental suffering is constant. It is better to forgive than to spoil your peace of mind with ill feelings.

  Dalai Lama

  Hatred, Feelings, Forgiving

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants to enjoy the book but also, as a writer, noticing the techniques that the writer uses and especially the ones that make you want to turn the page to see what happened.

  Homer Hickam

  Book, Reading, Track

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

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• I didn't really understand the importance of little things. I didn't really understand that it was the little foxes that spoil the vine. And if we're not faithful in little things, that God will never be able to make us ruler over great things.

  Joyce Meyer

  Faithful, Vines, Littles

  "The Larry King Live Show", transcripts.cnn.com. May 19, 2005.

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• You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist or whatever, you spoil the whole book for that person if there's obviously ignorance here. What's wrong with so much science fiction is that the science is so lousy that it isn't worth paying attention to.

  Robert Caro

  Book, Ignorance, Eye

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• Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

  Voltaire

  Faults, Language, Increase

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• But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world.

  William Cowper

  Wise, Baby, Kings

  1785 The Task, bk.5,'The Winter Morning Walk', l.187-92.

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• Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.

  Jim Davis

  Food, Lunch, Cooking

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• If it were possible for me to alter any part of his plan, I could only spoil it.

  John Newton

  Plans, Ifs

  John Newton (1824). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ...”, p.212

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• I see things in hardcopy that I miss if I only see words on screen. I do get sick of the words, but I like to see everything spread out because I get a sense of scale that is missing from screen. Going over each sentence many, many, many times gives me incredible intimacy with sentences, especially their rhythm. The rhythm and music of words matter a lot to me and it only takes one misplaced word to spoil the music.

  Myriam Gurba

  Giving, Sick, Missing

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• What a person loves at 20 may seem stupid at 35. That doesn't mean the book was stupid, it means that the time when it spoke to the reader is past. So . . . I'm cautious about rereading favorite books. I hate to spoil the good feelings they created. Keeping the good feelings is more important than rereading the book. Moving on is a good thing.

  Carl Deuker

  Hate, Stupid, Moving

  Source: www.sjboysread.org

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