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
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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 -
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 -
I don't think any of us would be who we are if our parents weren't who they were. People that are in show business, and their parents are not in show business, their parents probably motivated them to get in show business.
Pauly Shore
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I think if you have an eye and the ability and the confidence as a designer, you can turn your hand to anything.
Anouska Hempel -
No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
Arthur Conan Doyle -
I was afraid of the sophomore slump even before our first record came out. It was a very real fear because I'd watched so many bands I'd loved in the past not deliver. I knew it was a very real thing. I didn't know why it happens, but I'd been thinking about it a lot.
Mark Foster Foster the People -
Mad science is my middle name.
James Jannard -
Later, a large band of Christians mounted an attack on this native lord, butchering him along with vast numbers of his people and taking all the survivors into slavery, where they duly perished, so that today not a trace remains of what was previously a community with dominion over an area of some thirty leagues.
Bartolomé de las Casas -
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