Lafcadio Hearn Quotes

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

Lafcadio Hearn

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• Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

  

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• Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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  • Good
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• Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'

  

  Randall Munroe
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• Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.

  

  Gary Wolf
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• I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.

  

  Jacki Weaver
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• Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Long
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• I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • House
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  • Weight

• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• 'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Life
  • Time
  • Weird

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even use it. It can get kind of frustrating. But I don't regret that I decided to become an actor. Besides, if I don't like it at any time, I can stop.

  

  Barret Oliver
  • Time
  • Death
  • Stop

• It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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• In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Moral
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• I entered the industry at very young age, and I was like any normal girl at the age of 17 or 18. At that age, most girls are a little plump.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Age
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  • Young

• Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

  

  Damian Lewis
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  • End
  • In The End

• I'm not a god - I do bad things.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • God
  • Bad
  • Things

• With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Running
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• Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.

  

  Bill Keller
  • Children

• There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Good
  • Best
  • Mediocrity

• Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.

  

  William Cowper
  • Time
  • Sound
  • Wings

• I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Conventions
  • Fanatic
  • Star Trek

• I was the youngest of about nine boys in the neighborhood, and we played ball all the time, and I looked up to them, and they let me play around with them, and we just had a good time.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Free