Donald Knuth Quotes
I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.Donald Knuth
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
Pamela Sargent -
The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
Val Kilmer -
You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
Jack Youngblood -
I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
Zach LaVine -
The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
Tamara Tunie -
You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
Rand Paul
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson -
I wasn't the most prodigiously talented cricketer in Karnataka, let alone India. Some of my team-mates in my school team could hit the ball cleaner than I do. I had to work through that lack of talent, so to speak, that lack of natural flair. Runs never came easy for me.
Rahul Dravid -
But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
Rafael Palmeiro -
There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
Natalie Imbruglia -
I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.
Mamie Gummer -
The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
Carlo Goldoni
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Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.
J. J. Abrams -
I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.
Sam Shepard -
I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.
Dakota Johnson -
In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
Lana Del Rey -
This radical Islam is a religious-based ideology. And you actually have to, when you deal with the ideology, you have to attack it on that basis.
Jack Keane -
I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
Aaron Sorkin
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I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring.
Marisha Pessl -
My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers -
Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.
Mary Harris Jones -
I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.
Alton Brown -
From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!
Paul Stamets -
I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.
Donald Knuth