David Lodge Quotes
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.David Lodge
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
Zora Neale Hurston -
Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
Caity Lotz -
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I love to write.
Kara Hayward -
There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
Karen DeCrow
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I just don't think men fancy me.
Gail Porter -
Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
Tariq Ramadan -
I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.
Natalie Maines -
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
Barbara Walters -
The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
Bayard Taylor -
Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
Naftali Bennett
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
Larry Dixon -
I have no mouth, and I must scream.
Harlan Ellison -
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold MacMillan -
Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
Adam Cohen -
I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.
Lamar Alexander -
Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
Edmund Hillary
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There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.
Veronica Roth -
Chinese sausage, which is widely available from Asian grocers and online, is sweet, rich, and enticingly smoky. I add it to steamed rice with strips of omelette and a few baby veg stir-fried with soy.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
In art there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.
Louis Kronenberger -
It has been my experience that work on the screen clarifies stage portrayals and vice versa. You learn to make your face express more in making movies, and in working for the theater you have a sense of greater freedom.
Fredric March -
For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.
Ian Bogost -
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
David Lodge