Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes
No other creatures of the savannah sleep as deeply or as soundly as lions, but after all, lions are the main reason for not sleeping soundly.Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
Natascha McElhone -
The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
Barack Obama -
When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
Warren Christopher -
The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
Natalie Babbitt -
The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
Candice Swanepoel -
The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
Irwin Shaw -
I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
Gary Johnson -
I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
Mallory Ortberg -
I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
Warren Buffett
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
Barbara Hale -
My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.
Gabriel Mann -
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
R. L. Stine -
My friends sometimes used to ignore me completely, and that would really upset me badly.
Kate Bush -
As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.
Gary Wolf -
When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.
S. E. Hinton
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Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.
John Milton -
I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
Bill Gates -
My attitude when I'm in Mexico is I wake up in the morning with nothing to do and I go to bed half done. I don't wear a watch. When I live down there, I do nothing according to time. I eat when I'm hungry and go to sleep when I'm tired.
Jesse Ventura -
When I go away to do a movie, I bring the blanket I've had since I was a little girl. It helps me sleep. I also always bring my laptop so I can E-mail friends. And I bring my dog, Beauty, wherever I can.
Kirsten Dunst -
There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.
William Shakespeare -
No other creatures of the savannah sleep as deeply or as soundly as lions, but after all, lions are the main reason for not sleeping soundly.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas