Ellen Glasgow Quotes
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
Yves Chauvin -
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
Manuel Puig -
It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
Ugo Betti -
God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
Jack Keane -
I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso -
If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
Manoj Bhargava -
I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
Tamsin Greig -
Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
Ed Belfour
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
Tammy Duckworth -
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
Haile Selassie -
As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
Carl Hiaasen -
The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
Ina May Gaskin -
Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
Sam Smith -
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.
John Wilmot
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There is nothing like walking on the streets on a freezing cold day and hearing fans scream your name, then stopping to talk to those same fans. There is nothing like looking into the crowd at the Q and seeing over 20,000 people wearing wigs to match your hair. Those are feelings I will cherish for the rest of my life and never forget.
Anderson Varejao -
When I was a kid back in Kentucky, we went to this church where my uncle preached. It was kind of a weird Baptist, full-on kind of place. People kept running up to the pulpit and grabbing his ankles and being saved. Lots of crying. Even then, at six or seven, I questioned how pure the emotion could be if it were on such display.
Johnny Depp -
I can't tell you how excited I am to be a part of an organization that's committed to winning.
R.A. Dickey -
No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.
Ellen Glasgow