Shenstone Reserve Quotes & Sayings

Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent. — William Shenstone

A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights. — Kurt Vonnegut

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent. — Stanley Baldwin

We are defined not so much by what we're reading, as by what we're reading next. — Julia Keller

A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser. — Garry Kasparov

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost. — Evelyn Waugh

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them. — C.S. Lewis

There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover. — William Shenstone

Standing at the crossroads where I should have been able to see and follow the footprints of the countless patients I had treated over the years, I saw instead only a blank, a harsh, vacant, gleaming white desert, as if a sandstorm had erased all trace of familiarity. — Paul Kalanithi

Holding you in my arms always feels like holding a musical instrument that I love the most, moving my fingers on your skin feels like playing it. And my soul closes its eyes and starts singing along with the music I start creating. — Akshay Vasu

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction. — Mae West

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died. — Roy Blount Jr.

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature. — William Shenstone

To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living. — A. J. Bowen