Jonathan Swift Quotes
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
V. E. Schwab -
Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
Hafez -
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Victor Hugo -
There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.
Taylor Hanson Hanson -
I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
Larry David -
You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
Van Morrison
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
Caio Fonseca -
When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
Victoria Pratt -
I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.
Harold Prince -
As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.
T. C. Boyle -
I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.
Vanessa Brown -
I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.
Walter Jon Williams
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The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.
J. R. Moehringer -
I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.
Kate Fleetwood -
Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I try to call the play as quickly as I possibly can and then shut up and let the crowd roar because, to me, the crowd is the most wonderful thing in the whole world when it's making noise.
Vin Scully -
I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I make no excuses. It is what is it. I came up short. I took a chance, it didn't pay off. I'll be back.
Conor McGregor
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We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such.
Gary Wright -
Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.
Oswald Chambers -
In the first of these senses, neither Christ nor the Christian is supposed to be the world’s servant. Jesus is obedient, not to the world but to the Father. He is the servant of God, not of men, and we too are called to be servants of God.
Avery Dulles -
God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.
Jonathan Swift