Philip Reeve Quotes
I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because, from about the age of five, I was one of those children who always had his nose in a book.Philip Reeve
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Jackie Robinson -
Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
Carine Roitfeld -
The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
Rachel Kushner -
'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
Gary Ross -
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
Abu Bakr -
It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
Indira Gandhi -
The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
Zeljko Ivanek -
A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
Mahershala Ali -
After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
Valentina Tereshkova -
If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
Larry Page
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I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.
Gary Johnson -
Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
Jack Gleeson -
The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
Adam Grant -
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Baruch Spinoza -
I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
Lady Gaga -
If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.
Zac Efron
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This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.
Albert Szent-Györgyi -
When I read period material - and it ain't on Google - I am always alert for that one incredible detail. I'll read a whole book and get three words out of it, but they'll be three really good words.
Alan Furst -
I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Dave Reichert -
War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
Martha Gellhorn -
I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because, from about the age of five, I was one of those children who always had his nose in a book.
Philip Reeve