Dorothy Dunnett Quotes
Depose him,’ said Will Scott, astonished. ‘The Grand Master’s holy office terminates with his life.’ ‘And can nobody think of an answer to that?’ said Will Scott.Dorothy Dunnett
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With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.
Victor Koo -
Every morning I wake up and thank God.
Aaron Neville -
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
Quentin Crisp -
People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
Salman Khan -
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. Lucas
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
Barbara Corcoran -
From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
Garry Disher -
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
Ralph Fiennes -
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Wayne Gretzky -
I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
Halsey -
I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
Ian Mckellen
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
Wendi McLendon-Covey -
I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
E. L. Doctorow -
I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
Imran Khan -
There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
Nancy Gibbs -
I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
Garth Nix -
I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
Patrick M. Byrne
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Sometimes there are no good choices.
Lesli Linka Glatter -
My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
J. D. Vance -
I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park.
Jorge Garcia -
Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
Garry Winogrand -
Depose him,’ said Will Scott, astonished. ‘The Grand Master’s holy office terminates with his life.’ ‘And can nobody think of an answer to that?’ said Will Scott.
Dorothy Dunnett