Democritus Quotes
And yet it will be obvious that it is difficult to really know of what sort each thing is.Democritus
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
Bear Grylls -
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Samuel Adams -
I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
Vikram Seth -
I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
Wale -
I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.
Usher -
Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
Jack Nicklaus
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If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
Patricia Velasquez -
I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
Ed Asner -
We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
Yani Tseng -
My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
Carine Roitfeld -
If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.
Lacey Schwimmer -
As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
P. T. Barnum
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Paul here is unhappy because unhappiness is second nature to him but more particularly because he has not the faintest idea of how to bring about his heart's desire. And I am unhappy because nothing is happening. Four people in four corners, moping, like tramps in Beckett, and myself in the middle, wasting time, being wasted by time.
J. M. Coetzee -
One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
Larry Wall -
If the songs are dreamed, it's like my voice is coming out of their dream.
Bob Dylan -
His real wife, his houri, his paramour was everywhere waiting, genie-like, in a bottle. The hymeneal gouging-off of the bottle-top, the kiss of the brown bitter yeasty flow, the euphoria far beyond the release of detumescence.
Anthony Burgess -
Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
Ambrose Bierce -
Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'
Chris O'Dowd
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I guess I don't really believe in retirement. I believe in shorter days and maybe in weekends!
Alice Waters -
No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.
Marat Safin -
I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.
Jesse Eisenberg -
Be careful who you trust, the devil was once an angel.
Ziad Abdelnour -
And yet it will be obvious that it is difficult to really know of what sort each thing is.
Democritus