James Branch Cabell Quotes
And one would worship a woman whom all perfections dower, But the other smiles at transparent wiles; and he quotes from Schopenhauer. Thus two by two we wrangle and blunder about the earth, And that body we share we may not spare; but the Gods have need of mirth.James Branch Cabell
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The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
Vicente Fox -
When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
Magic Johnson -
I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
Fan Bingbing -
Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
Hannah More -
It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
Carine Roitfeld
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
Sam Yagan -
Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
Ed Asner -
I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.
Eddie Murphy -
Im not your biggest girly girl.
Maggie Siff -
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye -
It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
Victoria Principal
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
Randall Terry -
We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
Orville Redenbacher -
I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
Vanessa Minnillo -
I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.
Mamie Gummer -
I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
Daniel Cormier
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
Laura Wade -
While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen - because they're part of the same story. It's just that Greece is a little further along in the plot: They're at the point where the canoe is about to plunge over the falls. America is further upstream and can still pull for shore, but has decided, instead, that what it needs to do is catch up with the Greek canoe.
Mark Steyn -
'Better to make haste slowly than not at all,' said Amnir sententiously.
Leigh Brackett -
Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.
Charlotte Lennox -
Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.
Ken Robinson -
And one would worship a woman whom all perfections dower, But the other smiles at transparent wiles; and he quotes from Schopenhauer. Thus two by two we wrangle and blunder about the earth, And that body we share we may not spare; but the Gods have need of mirth.
James Branch Cabell