Freya Stark Quotes
The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.Freya Stark
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I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.
Ranbir Kapoor -
To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
Vera Wang -
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
Taisen Deshimaru -
I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
Samira Wiley -
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln -
You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
Gary Larson
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
Walter O'Brien -
Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
Warren Farrell -
I am a very selfish person.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
Nadia Comaneci -
We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
J. C. Watts -
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Jackie Collins
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
B. B. King -
Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.
Nathan Myhrvold -
If you want to get along, go along.
Sam Rayburn -
There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
Calvin Klein -
I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
Laura Schlessinger -
My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now.
Walter Gropius
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I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
Rachel Kushner -
...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.
William Gaddis -
Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.
Lucille Clifton -
My feelings are too loud for words And too shy for the world.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Sometimes i only sleep to wake up
Saahil Prem -
The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.
Freya Stark