Spoil Quotes - Page 16

• Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as the spoils of war. Art equaled power, riches and culture.

  Arne Glimcher

  Art, War, Jewels

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

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• The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands. There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself nothing that looked older or more worn than he.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Men, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1841). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.40, B Times

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• Normally I wouldn't spoil anything because I love surprises - I don't even shake my presents at Christmas.

  Taryn Manning

  Surprise, Shakes

  Source: m.etonline.com

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• It's the luxury of time that lets me in some ways now spoil myself. I get my workout in every day. I get a good, long sleep every day. I won't say they're guilty pleasures. When I first left Microsoft, I would say I spent the better part of a year saying, "OK, how do I get as busy and crazy and manic as I was at Microsoft?" Since then I said, "No, I'll make a bigger contribution in this phase of my life by being able to pick and choose, not being so manic, having time to step back, a little more time for what I'll call discernment rather than just activity."

  Steve Ballmer

  Workout, Crazy, Sleep

  "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• I feel like you have to go looking for spoilers. I'm not on social media, so I will watch a show that was on ten years ago, and clearly I could find out every single piece of information about that show, but I'm not trying to spoil myself. You definitely participate in your own spoiling.

  Deborah Ann Woll

  Media, Years, Trying

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.

  Gene Perret

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandpa

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• I invented a camera that has an exposure time of one hundred years and the camera works in the simplest possible terms, because anything more complicated is more likely to break down in one way or another. It's a pinhole camera that lets in very low light and instead of exposing film, which is going to spoil within a matter of days or weeks, I'm using ordinary black paper.

  Jonathon Keats

  Light, Years, Black

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

  Martin Luther

  Family, Children, Apples

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• Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.

  Maya Angelou

  Jealousy, Envy, Romance

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.60, Bantam

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• But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

  Thomas Gray

  Time, Eye, Soul

  1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.49-52.

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• Rich with the spoils of time.

  Thomas Gray

  Time, Rich

  1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.49-52.

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• Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Iron, Acting

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.

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• We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.

  Sherry Turkle

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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• Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.

  Pope John XXIII

  Truth, Silence, May

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• I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

  Ron Reagan

  Airplane, Airline Business, Flying

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• All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

  William Penn

  Men, Drunk, Mad

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the tavern and alehouse benefactor, the beggar's companion, the constable's trouble, his wife's woe, his children's sorrow, his neighbours scoff, his own shame.

  Thomas Adams

  Children, Wife, Sorrow

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• The rotten apple spoils his companion.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Apples, Rotten, Standards

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.58, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• From an over-arching point-of-view, in war there is heroism on both sides. Obviously, the victor gets the spoils, the victor gets to write history, but there's heroism and compassion on both sides, and to me that's very important.

  Russell Crowe

  War, Writing, Compassion

  "The Water Diviner - Russell Crowe interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I would never judge someone's intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that.

  Alanis Morissette

  Judging, Fame, Intrigue

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I really love a movie, I don't want to spoil it by too frequent visits. But I like to come back to certain films, which I admire.

  Roman Polanski

  Want, Film, Certain

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• My husband is like, "Oh, thank God we didn't have a boy, because there's this train set that I've always wanted, and these Star Wars spaceships . . ." They say, "Don't spoil your kids," but it's one thing spoiling your kids, it's another thing spoiling yourself.

  Milla Jovovich

  Stars, Husband, War

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2009.

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• Because I actively enjoy sleeping, dreams, the unexplainable dialogues that take place in my head as I am drifting off, all that, I tell myself that lying down to an afternoon nap that goes on and on through eternity is not something to be concerned about. What spoils this pleasant fancy is the recollection that when people are dead they don't read books. This I find unbearable.

  William Maxwell

  Dream, Lying, Book

  William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999”

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• I mean, you could lie here day after day, if you wanted to, and think about nothing but waterbugs. Not chase waterbugs, mind you, just think about them. You could spend your whole day, every day, just wondering and pondering about waterbugs, and talking to others about waterbugs . . . and before you realized it, you'd be old. One day you'd realize that you'd never actually seen a waterbug . . . but by then you wouldn't want to, because it would spoil all your beautiful ideas.

  Tad Williams

  Beautiful, Lying, Mean

  Tad Williams (2015). “Tailchaser's Song”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth.

  Isabella Stewart Gardner

  Stories, Telling The Truth, Good Story

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