Douglas Adams Quotes
I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on on the outside!Douglas Adams
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
Oliver Stone -
Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
Yann Martel -
I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
Sam Hunt -
I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat.
Omari Hardwick -
What is funny is when you do a futuristic movie, you immediately get to be fashionable because you're creating something that doesn't exist.
Olivier Theyskens
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Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
Dan Millman -
Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
I don't particularly like L.A.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
The best players I have seen and known have confidence in their teammates. They know that basketball's not a one-man game. That confidence brings out the best in everybody, because it's contagious.
Jack Ramsay -
I don't go by trends. I wear what I am comfortable in and what suits me. It is never about what is 'in' and what is 'out'. My personal sense of style spells 'comfort'.
Karisma Kapoor -
In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of closer study.
Karl Ferdinand Braun
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
C. Day Lewis -
I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.
Karl Lagerfeld -
My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.
Naomie Harris -
The big challenge is looking ripped and lean without being too big because on camera, it's easy to appear thick.
Parker Young -
I'd rather marry my husband in the stage where I know what I'm getting into and what it's going to be like for our life together.
Tamera Mowry -
They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion.
Rafael Palmeiro
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When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
The system was aided by the Church, whose natural interests allied it more to the great than to the meek.
Barbara W. Tuchman -
I think of myself as a Hollywood hillbilly, but I'm sick of all these questions people ask about Alabama. 'Do you have an outhouse?' 'Is there a lot of inbreeding in your family?' They think all Southerners don't have computers and TV sets and that we're all still living in 1862.
Sunny Mabrey -
The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.
D. Elton Trueblood -
Worst nightmares can also appear with your eyes open.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on on the outside!
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