Billy Connolly Quotes
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
Daniel Breaker -
It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
Yolandi Visser -
I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath.
Gale Anne Hurd -
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln -
Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.
Daniel Berrigan -
I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.
Ian Rankin
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In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.
Rachel Johnson -
I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.
J. B. Smoove -
Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
Oscar Levant -
Anything could happen. Together, she and Ulysses could change the world. Or something.
Kate DiCamillo -
It has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Good taste doesn't go out of style
Linus Torvalds -
8: A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan Perlis
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This is exactly how minds are opened: through honest, frank dialogue. Tears may be shed, but not blood.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Spice Market was just a big investment on lots of different levels.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten -
I think I've been through all the phases of the sport. I won, I lost, I got injured. Now I get to do what I love, with my truth, without worrying about what people will say or things like that.
Anderson Silva -
Because everyone in the world has the power to edit, Wikipedia has long been plagued by the so-called edit war. This is like a house where the husband wants it warm and the wife wants it cool and they sneak back and forth adjusting the thermostat at cross purposes.
James Gleick -
At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.
Edward Burnett Tylor
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I'm into using acrylic, in a complicated kind of way: Making it just as good as oil paint - better, maybe. It's odd - when I started out, acrylic was for children, pretty much. It was a cheaper paint. It wasn't supposed to look very good or last very long.
Peter Saul -
I don't want people to know who I am.
Rik Mayall -
I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool.'
James Patterson -
We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.
William Shakespeare -
I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
Billy Connolly