Poul Anderson Quotes

I think most human misery is due to well-meaning fanatics like him.

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• I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Family
  • Home
  • Together

• Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Good
  • Body
  • Doing

• I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Style
  • Reflect

• Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
  • House
  • Sometimes

• Just as China achieved much more than India in the realm of public health and education under an austere Communist regime, so its economic growth under a capitalist-friendly government strikes a visitor from India as nothing less than spectacular.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Education
  • Health
  • Growth

• I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
  • Music
  • Comedy

• I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Job
  • Grandmother
  • Boxing

• But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Real
  • Hollywood
  • Him

• On the roads, it is one of those 'might is right' situations. If I see cars coming, I duck out of the way.

  

  Dane Bird-Smith
  • See
  • Roads
  • Duck

• Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Up
  • Age
  • Growing

• Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Time
  • World
  • Soul

• On the first 'Indiana Jones' movie, I tore an ACL in one of my knees - can't remember which knee. The scene in which I was fighting the big German mechanic on an airplane called a flying wing, I was run over by the landing gear and injured my knee, but I can't remember which one it was. Lots of bumps and injuries along the way.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Fighting

• The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Know
  • Find
  • Library

• There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss

• I was at a really low point, thinking of going to university and doing a course because the music thing just wasn't happening for me. But I went on the show and...

  

  Leona Lewis
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I'd smile so much my face would crack in two Then you could fix it with your kissing glue I'd like that Yes, I'd like that

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Smile

• You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity.

  

  John Newcombe
  • Pretty

• Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision.

  

  Jim Bunning
  • Decision

• The only thing I've ever wanted to do is really make people happy, offer some sort of positivity with music that I've written. The Chili Peppers do that for people. They're already established. I still want something that came out of me, and out of my heart.

  

  Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Written

• My secret is I cannot go to bed, I cannot sleep, if my bed is not made before I go to bed. I can leave it unmade in the morning, but I have to remake it before I get into it to sleep.

  

  Kevin Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Morning
  • Sleep
  • Secret

• Yet, for I know thou art religious And hast a thing within thee called conscience, With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies Which I have seen thee careful to observe, Therefore I urge thy oath; for that I know An idiot holds his bauble for a god And keeps the oath which by that god he swears, To that I'll urge him: therefore thou shalt vow By that same god, what god soe'er it be, That thou adorest and hast in reverence, To save my boy, to nourish and bring him up, Or else I will discover naught to thee.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Boys

• I think most human misery is due to well-meaning fanatics like him.

  

  Poul Anderson