Douglas Horton Quotes
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.
Irvine Welsh -
Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.
Edgardo Osorio -
I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
T. C. Boyle -
Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.
Edmund Hillary -
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
Sallust -
Forgiveness in any aspect of something that is complex is the greatest tool.
Kate Hudson
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Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.
Nathaniel Parker -
I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from a death sentence. But in South Africa, a life sentence means imprisonment until death - or until the defeat of the government which holds these men prisoner.
Oliver Tambo -
I think a lot of what I was taught, gathered, and learned is worth keeping. Heritage and 'wisdom' and simply personal family and local history enrich the one able to tap such information. As it is I wish I had garnered more from my grandparents and parents.
Gary Gygax -
Tell me not here, it needs not saying,What tune the enchantress playsIn aftermaths of soft SeptemberOr under blanching mays,For she and I were long acquaintedAnd I knew all her ways.
A. E. Housman -
Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.
Maria Montessori -
Mr Premier, Sir. Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.
Aravind Adiga
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What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface; of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.. .I see everything that way, the surface of things, a kind of mental Braille. I just pass my hands over the surface of things. 1973
Andy Warhol -
The Crucible became by far my most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. Its meaning is somewhat different in different places and moments. I can almost tell what the political situation in a country is when the play is suddenly a hit there - it is either a warning of tyranny on the way or a reminder of tyranny just past.
Arthur Miller -
Electric eels I might add do it, Though it shocks 'em I know...
Cole Porter -
We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love.
Alice Cary -
Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.
Arthur Bloch
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College kids, don't be taking examples from me.
Darrell Hammond -
I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.
Mac Davis -
It's funny when people say they see a lot of Madonna in me. I just feel so flattered because I love her and I am just her biggest fan. She is very strong. I love the way she does interviews -you know you won't get anything past her.
Lady Gaga -
I don't know. It's just cute. She's too young to understand that.
Craig Biggio -
'My Family Recipe Rocks' is on the Live Well Network, and we go to people's homes and watch them cook.
Joey Fatone NSYNC -
Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
Douglas Horton