Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes
We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.Mary Wortley Montagu
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
Carly Fiorina -
Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another.
Parker Stevenson -
As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
Garth Ennis -
Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
Bear Grylls -
I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
Manuel Puig -
Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write – I find it gets in the way.
Dani Shapiro
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
Beau Bridges -
It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.
Wale -
Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
Mandy Patinkin -
My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.
Sadie Frost -
I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
Natalia Kills
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
Ted Cruz -
I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
Patrick Troughton -
Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.
Barry Ritholtz -
Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
Xavier Niel -
When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
Laura Dekker -
Philadelphia loves its team, and being able to win a World Series for the city, fans, players and our Phillies organization meant so much to me.
Pat Gillick
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I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
Harold Pinter -
We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.
Yvon Chouinard -
If future history is not to be just one damned thing after another in space, then what we really have to do is in some way overcome this linear experience of time that makes all existence a quest for something that will never be found.And philosophies such as Zen seem to hint that this is possible.
Quentin S. Crisp -
The most romantic thing a guy has ever done for me is starting a family. That's as romantic as it gets.
Isla Fisher -
I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
Rand Paul -
We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.
Mary Wortley Montagu