Jamaica Kincaid Quotes
One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.Jamaica Kincaid
Quotes to Explore
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
Oliver Ellsworth -
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
Oliver Cromwell -
I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology.
Dan Lipinski -
I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
Natasha Lyonne -
I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
Zoe Kazan -
The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
Larry King
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
Hannah Arendt -
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso -
With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
Rafael Palmeiro -
I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
Jack Kevorkian -
Drama starts where logic ends.
Ram Charan -
Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
Pat Summitt
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
Adam Carolla -
I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.
Manolo Blahnik -
All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
Nancy Gibbs -
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
R. Lee Ermey -
I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
Paloma Picasso -
Anyone can wear my dresses. They will look good on any figure, no matter what shape you are. I want to celebrate a woman's inner strength, to inspire real women and make them feel confident and beautiful.
Tadashi Shoji
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This image of four spectra is taken from one of Huggins's publications. ...You can see that the Comet Winnecke resembles olive oil more than it does Comet Brorsen.
Carl Sagan -
The public library my parents took me to in Fort Worth had the children's section next to the SF/F section, so I was reading adult SF/F at a very young age.
Martha Wells -
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
Epictetus -
If reading makes you smart then how come when you read a book they have to put the title of the book on the top of every single page? Does anyone get halfway through a book, What the hell am I reading?
Brian Regan -
It is not a profession to be a pianist and musician. It is a philosophy, a conception of life that cannot be based on good intentions or natural talent. First and foremost there must be a spirit of sacrifice.
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli -
One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.
Jamaica Kincaid