Bernard Cornwell Quotes
'I think the Holy Grail is a dream that men have, a dream that the world can be made perfect. And if it existed, then we'd all know the dream can't come true.'Bernard Cornwell
Quotes to Explore
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
Ikue Mori -
It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
Malcolm Forbes -
I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
Patch Adams -
To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
Queen Latifah -
You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
Ramana Maharshi -
I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
Jack Kerouac
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
Gary Sinise -
I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
Hannah Simone -
Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
Parker Posey -
Whenever I go on the red carpet and I'm a bit nervous, I just say to myself the mantra, 'Come on Barbara, you gotta get those pictures posted on Instagram!' That's all I have in my mind, like, 'Look serious now, maybe give a little smile, but a cheeky one,' but in the end, it's never how it looks.
Barbara Palvin -
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
Viktor Orban
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
Wendy Kopp -
I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
J. Christopher Burch -
Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
Adam McKay -
When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
Harold Coffin -
My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
Candis Cayne
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I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'
Yvonne Strahovski -
When I've got time off, my feet get itchy really quickly.
Paolo Nutini -
Crying that it's an application bug is like crying over the speed of light: you should deal with reality, not what you wish reality was.
Linus Torvalds -
I'd love to drive a Lamborghini, but I think it's hard when the pedals are way down in there, and you sit real low, but I've come up with some pedal extensions. I actually sit in a kids' car seat that my old boss put this beautiful leather wrap around, and it looks just like a Corvette seat that sits on top of my leather Corvette seat.
Martin Klebba -
What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.
Patrick Marber -
'I think the Holy Grail is a dream that men have, a dream that the world can be made perfect. And if it existed, then we'd all know the dream can't come true.'
Bernard Cornwell