Charles Reade Quotes
First, think in as homely a way as you can; next, shove your pen under the thought, and lift it by polysyllables to the true level of fiction
Charles Reade
Quotes to Explore
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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
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
Zhang Xin
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
Patrick Fischler
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Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.
Becki Newton
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
Safra A. Catz
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
Jack Kerouac
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There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.
Barry Jenkins
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We've gone through rounds of tax cutting and rounds of tax increases in modern U.S. history. We haven't really had a big igniting of a trade war belligerence since the Depression era, and that's not an era that we want to repeat.
Austan Goolsbee
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There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.
Len Wein
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The linear, single species idea of farming is an assault on ecological function. Something's going to break down in that system - anything from soil structure, in economics... but where to start is with true ecological function.
Joel Salatin
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First, think in as homely a way as you can; next, shove your pen under the thought, and lift it by polysyllables to the true level of fiction
Charles Reade