Emily Bronte Quotes
I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
Quotes to Explore
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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All I do is sit at home and watch Netflix.
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I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.
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My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of his experience in World War II - he was in Dresden when it was bombed and saw a city annihilated. When you combine those two things, my impression of Kurt Vonnegut at 84 was that he was a very pained and haunted man.
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It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can't imagine a day without her!
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I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
