Diogenes Quotes
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.Diogenes
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
Vin Scully -
She's been on more laps than a napkin.
Walter Winchell -
It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
Walt Kelly -
I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
Ford Frick -
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
Florence Nightingale -
I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
Earl Browder
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I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.
Carlos Fuentes -
The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.
Rand Paul -
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Karl Kraus -
Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
Pamela Anderson -
I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was really that simple. And I think with the proliferation of the Internet and Internet media, it has been a little harder to maintain that gatekeeper position.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Today, I see thousands of Mahatma Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, and Nelson Mandelas marching forward and calling on us. The boys and girls have joined. I have joined in. We ask you to join, too.
Kailash Satyarthi
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I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.
Harold Pinter -
I don't even sing in the shower.
Lara Stone -
What is a struggle is that acting isn't a place where you go to work and you do that thing. There aren't set boundaries, like an office, where you go and work. For me, the work is always on my mind.
Adam Driver -
I want to live happily in a world I don't understand.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.
Edward Bellamy -
This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.
Henry David Thoreau
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I don't want the kids to go through want I went through.
Leon Spinks -
I'd rather have fewer spectacular theaters than tons of cheap little multiplexes.
Douglas Trumbull -
What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.
Eric Lynn Wright -
That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
Gary Shteyngart -
No man can think about everything; we can only be ready for everything
Conn Iggulden -
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
Diogenes