David Gemmell Quotes
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I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.
Imelda May -
If I can't do high kicks or dance in it, then I won't wear it.
Yvonne Strahovski -
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
Quentin Crisp -
The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it's cheaper, and it has a great image, and you just can't beat it at night. It's pulling in variations of colors; it's pulling in lights from 40 miles away - a candle would be seen.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
Yann Martel -
There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.
Gabriela Sabatini
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Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
Karl Barth -
I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.
Karlie Kloss -
It wasn’t so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.
Orson Scott Card -
Layton: After all these years of inaction, will the Prime Minister finally get something done and do something the former government would not do and that is to cancel the subsidies to big oil and big ass-I mean big gas and start putting-Stephen Harper: Mr. Speaker, I promise to get to the bottom of it.
Jack Layton -
Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.
Henry David Thoreau
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Our opponents like to try and make you believe that Conservatism is a privilege of the few. But Conservatism conserves all that is great and best in our national heritage.
Margaret Thatcher -
It still amazes me how many musicians aren't really interested in engaging with their audience at all. Alfred Brendel, a pianist for whom I have the greatest respect, has described performance as a sacred communion between the artist and the composer. But what about the audience? Music is communication, a two-way street.
Charles Hazlewood -
If you've ever talked to a special agent that you know well, and you ask he or she about a dangerous encounter they were involved in, they'll almost always give you the same answer: 'Yeah, I did it, but I was scared to heck the whole time.'
James Comey -
As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I'm not going to get the girl, and second, I'll get a cheap funeral before the picture is over.
Lee Marvin -
I was an online service provider. It's not my job to police what people are uploading. It's the job of the content owners, and the law is very clear. If you create content, and you want to protect your copyrights, you have to do the work.
Kim Dotcom -
Some players are quite homely, and they don't see themselves going abroad; others would relish the challenge. I can only speak personally, but I always wanted the challenge, and to go and live in a place like Barcelona was great.
Gary Lineker
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The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.
Peter Drucker -
And more so now, since having a family - I don't seek out any other acceptance.
Kelly Clarkson -
Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.
Charles Jencks -
Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.
David Gemmell