James Gates Percival Quotes
The water is calm and still below, For the winds and waves are absent there,And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper air.James Gates Percival
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Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
Campbell Scott -
English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
Yael Naim -
I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club -
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
Rachel Johnson -
To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
Yannick Noah -
I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
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Contempt is the only asymmetrical facial expression, so it's easy to spot once you're aware of its signs. One researcher has successfully tracked it in couples as a predictor of divorce. When someone is angry at you, you've still got traction with them, but when they display contempt, you've been dismissed.
Pamela Meyer -
We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?
Carl Honore -
I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
Vernon L. Smith -
There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
Ilka Chase
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I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.
T. J. Miller -
As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
Carla Gugino -
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
Oscar Wilde -
To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.
Dan Castellaneta -
Men treat men differently than they would a woman.
Orlando Bloom -
We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
Maeve Binchy
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There's a lot of stuff out there that government shouldn't do.
Chuck Fleischmann -
I don't really have any different cravings from the ones that I had before. I've always liked food that is not good for you, and I still do. But I think I've been really good with eating healthy. I think probably the biggest thing is french fries, but that's nothing new. Right now, I'm trying to force myself to drink water with lemon. Bo-ring.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.
Ian Mcewan -
The water is calm and still below, For the winds and waves are absent there,And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper air.
James Gates Percival