Kenneth Grahame Quotes
There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
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I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.
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Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
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The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.
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Small towns are the worst for getting recognised.
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Sanctius his animal mentisque capacius altaeDeerat adhuc et quod dominari in cetera posset:Natus homo est.
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Today 29-9-34 ion the garden, rockery side, looking up to the house where Bone was working, sky bluish, very gentle, I looked without theories or self consciousness. This happens very seldom, though I can prolong the delight if I prevent my engines from restarting.
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The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.
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The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God.
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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We are one nation and one people. Our fate as a nation and our future as a people rest not upon one citizen, but upon all citizens. This is the majesty and the meaning of this moment.
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When you're playing against a whole bunch of All-Stars, it's like a video game. There's so much talent on the floor at once.
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I left 'L.A. Law' after five years when my contract was up because I felt I had done all I could do with the character. I didn't walk off the show with a three-picture deal to pursue this wonderful film career.
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Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well?
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For me, creating music is just as relaxing as sitting down and doing nothing.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually [...] train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.
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I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important.
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One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential point to other minds. Words may have to be strained into a new sense, and scientific controversies constantly resolve themselves into differences about the meaning of words. On the other hand, a happy nomenclature has sometimes been more powerful than rigorous logic in allowing a new train of thought to be quickly and generally accepted.
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There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
