Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Quotes
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
Nathan Myhrvold -
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W. S. Merwin -
Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
Sam Childers -
I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
Aaron Sorkin -
My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
Cara Delevingne -
Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
Kary Mullis
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
Yehuda Berg -
For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
Jack Whitehall -
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln -
I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
Yvonne Strahovski -
It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
Octavia Spencer
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
Rachel Sklar -
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill -
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
Malcolm Arnold -
With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
Gary Weiss -
I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.
Gary Coleman -
You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.
Pablo Sandoval
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The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.
Kevin DeYoung -
The United States construction industry is ready to digest this large increase in capacity. Regions with a vibrant economic base dominate the location of plant expansions and the related escalation in private, commercial, and public infrastructure construction will require additional materials.
Ed Sullivan -
At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
Floyd Skloot -
Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
Rachel Sklar -
My only regret is to die four pages too soon.
Dennis Potter -
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould