Val McDermid Quotes
That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.Val McDermid
Quotes to Explore
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Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
Saint Bernard -
He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
Orison Swett Marden -
I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
Francesca Annis -
Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
Jack Horner -
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
Felicity Jones
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
Raghuram Rajan -
Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
Sam Smith -
I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.
Barbara Kingsolver -
You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
Harold Prince
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Evil report carries further than any applause.
Baltasar Gracian -
The Disney deal for us, we are very excited to be their Pay 1 partner, where we are a big licensing partner of Disney all over the world in all different windows.
Ted Sarandos -
I'm gonna stay an album guy. In fact, concept albums are really blowing my mind right now, because if you want to promote an album, think about it - a concept album might be the way to go.
Garth Brooks -
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
Jack Nicklaus -
Wherever you go at SXSW, there you are standing in line. Or watching other people stand in line.
Kara Swisher -
Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
Baltasar Kormakur -
There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.
Christopher Priest -
Writing totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.
Judy Blume -
Like a lot of small press founders I was looking for a way into publishing - as well as a way out of academia. Without moving to London, I couldn't see a way of working for a publishing house whose work I liked. Believe it or not, the simplest way for me to get into publishing was to start my own press.
Andrew Latimer Camel -
That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.
Val McDermid