Mary Shelley Quotes
My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.Mary Shelley
Quotes to Explore
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
Barbara Amiel -
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson -
My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
Jack Bowman -
I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
Flume -
I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.
Barry Jenkins -
My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
Natan Sharansky
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
Sam Altman -
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. Wells -
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
Oprah Winfrey -
There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.
Rachel Shelley -
You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
Barbara Bush -
I'm tired now of the elections.
Barbara Bush
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I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.
Queen Latifah -
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
Saint Augustine -
What would be a road hazard anywhere else, in the Third World is probably the road.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Voyaging into the night, one knows exactly where, on a known vessel, an absolute harmony with the elements of the unreal. 1959, reacting on a remark of Robert Motherwell
Ad Reinhardt -
'I was ordained,' said the preacher. 'No one ordains artists. They ordain themselves.'Just as Taleswapper had expected. The preacher retreated to authority as soon as he feared his ideas could not stand on their own merit. Reasonable argument was impossible when authority became the arbiter.
Orson Scott Card -
The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure.
M. C. Escher
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I watch a lot of television. The stuff that they're putting on television, series like 'The Americans' and 'Game of Thrones,' it's so superior to most of the films that are coming out of Hollywood in terms of drama, certainly in terms of what we're interested in.
Lee Grant -
Sometimes in the life of an actor you're not getting offered any jobs that speak to you. The trouble with acting is that you're only as good as your opportunities.
Ethan Hawke -
I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
Sometimes when you make a record and it's not successful, you just don't want to go through that process for a while. You want to have your wounds heal.
Gary Wright -
The best thing Clinton could do - I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure - is to shut up.... He has no discipline.
Barry Goldwater -
My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.
Mary Shelley