Elizabeth Goudge Quotes

Folks don't fall from laughter to fear in that way when they're nervously strong, and nerves take their toll of the body in the end.

Elizabeth Goudge

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• The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

  

  Larry David
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• Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

  

  Kate Atkinson
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  • Me
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• Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.

  

  Gary Numan
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• Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
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• I'm a typical California boy.

  

  Gary Lockwood
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• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another.

  

  Vince Cable
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• I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the most miserable I've ever been. When those things collided, I realised something was off. That's when I started poking around to figure out what was wrong.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Money
  • Success
  • Miserable

• All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Good
  • Give
  • Ourselves

• So many songwriters peak in their early 20s because they're living off their passions.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Living
  • Early
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• By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Country
  • Better
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• The destruction of the atom the split of it, in modern physics seemed to me to be the same as the destruction of the world.. ..science to me appeared to be dead: its most important basis was only a lunacy, a mistake perpetrated by learned men.. ..who blindly mistook one object for another.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • World
  • Men
  • Important

• The most peaceable tribes of today were often ravagers of yesteryear and will probably again produce soldiers and murderers in the future.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Future
  • Today

• The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our head says, 'I might wear eyeglasses or be chunky around the hips or a girl, but at least I'm not Gay or Black or a Jew.' Meaning: I may be me - but at least I have the good sense not to be YOU.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Time
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• I have very special memories of the West Ham fans.

  

  Dimitri Payet
  • Memories

• There are people with an explicit political bent complaining about people having political agendas while nominating stories with political agendas. Is it political to try to be diverse? Is it political to try to imagine a non-heteronormative society? Yes, because it involves politics. But how do they expect us to not write about our lives?

  

  Alaya Dawn Johnson
  • People
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• Everyone has their own path and you can't judge.

  

  Jake Owen
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• Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Up
  • God
  • Lost

• I think the more yellows, the more lights, the better. It alerts everybody. I mean, I guess I'm always a little bit afraid when the yellow comes out, we all get out of it, that someone won't notice it, pile into the back of you.

  

  Danica Patrick
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• If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is

  

  Van Cliburn
  • World
  • Music
  • Inspiration

• Music companies and buyers are not too encouraging towards independent musicians. Everyone wants to play safe and go with established names, but unless one breaks this routine, no new talent will come and survive.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Independent
  • Talent

• I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though.

  

  Joshua Leonard
  • Long
  • Scene
  • Harder

• Folks don't fall from laughter to fear in that way when they're nervously strong, and nerves take their toll of the body in the end.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Laughter
  • Folks
  • Nerves