Delia Ephron Quotes
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
Florence Nightingale -
As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my day without interacting in any meaningful way with a single non-Muslim.
Maajid Nawaz -
I have always loathed working out.
Tea Leoni -
If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
Victoria Principal -
Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
Victoria Secunda -
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
Pat Paulsen -
In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.
Candis Cayne -
My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.
M. Night Shyamalan -
To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
Abu Bakr -
The private sector is growing so incredibly in India, in every city you have industries for whom building a concert hall would be nothing financially. But they just don't do it.
Zubin Mehta -
It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.
Isaac Asimov
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The pages of Euclid are like the opening bars of the music of the Grand Opera of Nature's great drama. So to say, they lift the veil and show to our vision a glimpse of a vast world of natural knowledge awaiting study.
C. V. Raman -
A weak invention of the enemy.
Colley Cibber -
It frustrates me if I'm not good at something, so I do it until I get good at it.
Joe Mauer -
I think the whole '2112' album took somewhere around a week to do.
Alex Lifeson Rush -
There's a lot to learn from the family of a soldier as much as the soldier. Actually, 'warrior' is a better word.
Ben Foster -
You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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Scientific realism is the doctrine that science describes the real world: that the world actually is as science takes it to be, and that its furnishings are as science envisages them to be It is quite clear that it is not…
Nicholas Rescher -
When I was really little, I wanted to be our first woman president. I always knew I want to be the kind of grownup who makes people's lives better. And since that's pretty much the job of the President of the United States, it seemed like a good idea.
Marley Dias -
The new plastic idea thus correctly represents actual aesthetic relationships. To the modern artist, it is a natural consequence of all the plastic ideas of the past. This is particularly true of painting, which is the art least bound to contingencies. The picture can be a pure reflection of life in its deepest essence.
Piet Mondrian -
But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music.
Carson McCullers -
Doyouwantogoona-Who is this? Oh, I have the wrong number.
Delia Ephron