Mickey Gilley Quotes
I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.
Mickey Gilley
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Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.
Albert Camus
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One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out.
Steve Jobs
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They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important -- everybody knows that; the TV tells you so -- but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another.
Ned Vizzini
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You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting.
James Brown
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Be your own place of safety, she told herself, straightening. No crossbar in the world could protect her from what lay ahead, and neither could a tiny knife ticked in her boot - though there her tiny knife would most certainly remain - and neither could a man, not even Akiva. She had to be her own strength, complete unto herself.
Laini Taylor
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I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives...But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax.
W. C. Fields
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You knew when a woman loves you like that, she can love you with every card in the deck and then pull a knife across your throat the next morning.
Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin Jr.
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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.
Anne Carson
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The mistake consists in our splitting into two what is really and absolutely one. Is not life one as we live it, which we cut to pieces by recklessly applying the murderous knife of intellectual surgery?
D. T. Suzuki
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God's Teeth,' he says. 'I was only trying to wake you. You were crying out in your sleep.' 'I was not,' I say, then look from his neck to my knife. 'When I tried to wake you, you stabbed me.' He sounds sore put out. and I cannot blame him.
Robin LaFevers
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I had a stalker who was extremely violent. He broke into the studio with knives and I was locked in a bathroom.
Paget Brewster
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There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners of her eyes without turning her head which could be pleasantly dispensed with, especially when she is in an ill humour and near knives. Through all the good taste of her dress and little adornments, these objections so express themselves that she seems to go about like a very neat she-wolf imperfectly tamed.
Charles Dickens
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You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me!
Sarah Dessen
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But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.
Lord Byron
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I view it as a real competition. We're in a business where, you know what, there's no babies here. You go out, win the job and take it. I've been told by management, for the most part, that we're going to play the best people. Obviously, you've got to consider stuff like contracts - that's a reality of the game. But still, when it gets down to it, we're going to try and pick the guy that deserves to win the job.
Willie Randolph
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You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.
William Gibson
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Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him. ... Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable - it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.
Stella Benson
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I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.
Mickey Gilley