James Geary Quotes
I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.
Quotes to Explore
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'
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When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.
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I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.
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If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out 'The Walking Dead.' Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
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'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
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Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.
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Plymouth, Gwenda thought, as she moved forward obediently in the queu for Passports and Customs, was probably not the best of England.
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I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.
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Coach Noll is not a great one for speeches. He's not the rah-rah type trying to fire us up in the locker room. He gets us ready to play and gives us a game plan that we've grown to believe is going to work. Usually it does.
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God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.
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I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.
