J. D. Salinger Quotes
But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist.J. D. Salinger
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
Tao Lin -
One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
Ian Hacking -
But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
Beatrice Dalle -
I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
Zachary Levi -
More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
Walt Alston -
The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
Karen Robards -
I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
Marc Almond Soft Cell -
Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
Malcolm Mclaren -
This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
Walter Lang -
Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
Sam Raimi -
World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
M. John Harrison
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
Abraham Verghese -
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
V. S. Naipaul -
I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.
Foster Friess -
To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.
Ian Botham -
I want to see more sports in schools.
Saina Nehwal -
The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
Maggie Stiefvater
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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
Immanuel Kant -
It is always a gamble to agree to publish something one has not yet read oneself.
Peter Mayer -
Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.
Polly Toynbee -
In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.
Joe Biden -
I like to watch MTV for escapist pleasure, but when I saw Snooki, I saw my twin. I couldn't lose myself in the show anymore because there I was.
Anne Hathaway -
But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist.
J. D. Salinger