Gaston Bachelard Quotes
It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.Gaston Bachelard
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
Faith Hill -
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
Kanye West -
I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
Oksana Baiul -
I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
Watt Key -
I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
Maika Monroe -
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
Sallust
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
Dan Kaminsky -
The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
Irwin Shaw -
I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
Ed Westwick -
Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
G. Edward Griffin -
For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
Gabriela Sabatini -
I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.
Larry David
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
Jackie Mason -
Life at best is bittersweet.
Jack Kirby -
In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
Edmund White -
Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.
Sami Gayle -
I've always had very catholic tastes.
Ian Mckellen -
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
Abigail Adams
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
From what I awaited, came my habit of waiting.
Antonio Porchia -
I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
George McGovern -
If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
Daniel Gilbert -
Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.
David Byrne Talking Heads -
It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.
Gaston Bachelard