Edward Joseph Young Quotes
The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.Edward Joseph Young
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
Washed Out -
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Napoleon Hill -
I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
Carlo Rubbia -
I'm a warrior for the middle class.
Barack Obama -
If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
Adam McKay -
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
Samuel Johnson
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Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter.
Patricia Highsmith -
sub specie aeternitatis
Baruch Spinoza -
Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.
Harper Lee -
If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.
Lewis Black -
What was shocking to us was that by spreading the energy out across seven beams instead of one, the phototoxicity went way down.
Eric Betzig
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In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet our obligations.
Luis de Guindos -
I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldn't get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic.
David Blaine -
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
Aslan Maskhadov -
Events in America show the extent to which democracy there is fuelled by populism - Barack Obama's victory is a manifestation not of Washington's need for change, but of America's. That is not how democracy works in England.
Andrew O'Hagan -
You can make all the birth plans in the world, but at the end of the day - go with the flow.
Poppy Montgomery -
What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?
David Foster Wallace
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Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
John Adams -
Even a fool is wise after an event.
Albert Einstein -
This week Disney opened its first ever theme park in China. More than ten thousand children showed up on opening day. And that was just to make the T-shirts.
Conan O'Brien -
For me dancing is not just moving your arms and legs but basically it's a very spiritual experience. It's part of me and a second nature to me. You can say it is in my blood.
Madhuri Dixit -
The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.
Edward Joseph Young