H. L. Mencken Quotes
To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies - the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.H. L. Mencken
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
Gail Porter -
You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
Ramana Maharshi -
The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.
Barbara Demick -
The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.
Laura Leighton -
I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
Taraji P. Henson -
Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
Kangana Ranaut
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
F. Gary Gray -
I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
Laura Hillenbrand -
Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
Natassia Malthe -
More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
Damon Albarn Blur -
If the constitution goes, I go.
Kamisese Mara -
I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
Adam Lambert
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
Carlene Carter -
I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
Zac Posen -
People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.
L.A. Reid -
An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
Carl Maria von Weber
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Creating films and photographs through situations that few others could experience is my life's inspiration.
Jimmy Chin -
So many Irish actors overplay that modesty because they're afraid people will judge them and say, 'The state of yer man, he thinks he's great,' or whatever.
Jack Reynor -
Reading these two genomes side by side, it's amazing to see the evolutionary changes that are occurring. I couldn't imagine naturalist Charles Darwin looking for stronger confirmation of his theories.
Bob Waterston -
We were the children of the 1950s and John F. Kennedy’s young stalwarts of the early 1960s. He told the world that Americans would “pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship” in the defense of freedom. We were the down payment on that costly contract, but the man who signed it was not there when we fulfilled his promise. John F. Kennedy waited for us on a hill in Arlington National Cemetery, and in time we came by the thousands to fill those slopes with our white marble markers and to ask on the murmur of the wind if that was truly the future he had envisioned for us.
Hal Moore -
I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.
Melora Hardin -
To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies - the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.
H. L. Mencken