Frank Yerby Quotes
About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.Frank Yerby
Quotes to Explore
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler -
I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
Walter Cronkite -
The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.
Dana Perino -
I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
Imran Khan -
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
Carl T. Rowan -
I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
Sam Shepard
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club -
To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
Yannick Noah -
Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
Oliver Joseph Lodge -
My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I've shot films in Belfast, where he's from. And I've shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I've shot in Dublin.
Imogen Poots -
Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
Adam Mansbach
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
Vernon L. Smith -
Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.
Quincy Jones -
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
Queen Latifah -
My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
Cam Newton -
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
Karl Popper -
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
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I did exhibitions with the Surrealists in Paris, c. 1929 because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself was wise, as was Dada's.
Jean Arp -
Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy. Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter of the sciences, generous with his talent and his time. And of course, Leonard was Spock. Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek’s optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity’s future. I loved Spock.
Barack Obama -
Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.
Buzz Aldrin -
We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.
J. B. Pritzker -
About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.
Frank Yerby