David Gemmell Quotes
'A methodical people,' pulsed the voice of Kesa Khan. 'They call themselves civilized because they can build tall castles and pitch their tents with geometric precision, but from here you can see the reality. Ants build in the same way. Are they civilized?'David Gemmell
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
Pamela Sargent -
I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
Abigail Breslin -
When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
Walker Stapleton -
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
Damien Rice -
Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
Walter Martin -
If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
Rachel Maddow
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
Beatrice Wood -
Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
Walt Disney -
Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
Owen Wilson -
If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
Rafael Nadal -
I'm not a Democrat.
Aaron McGruder -
A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
Irina Shayk
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
Frances O'Grady -
Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
Sam Kean -
From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
Ueli Gegenschatz -
A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
Adam Cohen -
Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
Wellington Mara -
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
Warren Bennis
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It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.
Victoria Pratt -
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Emo Philips -
Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks with the odours of generations of bad ventilation, and it contrives to be at once the stuffiest and the draughtiest building I have ever been in.
Emmeline Pankhurst -
Obama is a great leader. He can fire people up and get them to do what he wants.
Penn Jillette -
I think people will be really shocked when they see this because people are used to eating portions that are so much bigger.
Marion Nestle -
'A methodical people,' pulsed the voice of Kesa Khan. 'They call themselves civilized because they can build tall castles and pitch their tents with geometric precision, but from here you can see the reality. Ants build in the same way. Are they civilized?'
David Gemmell