Ian Mcewan Quotes
It is shaming sometimes how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum’s sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted a blush?Ian Mcewan
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
Dan Shechtman -
I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
Lady Starlight -
Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
Warren Beatty -
I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.
Ian Watson -
Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
Vikram Seth
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
Walt Whitman -
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra -
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Natalie Dormer -
In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
Vernon L. Smith -
Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson -
I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
Sally Schneider
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I don't want to do the nerdy, goofy guy again. That was really fitting for the 'Napoleon' world, but that's kind of where I want it to stay.
Aaron Ruell -
I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
Harold Budd -
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde -
I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.
Felicity Kendal -
People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
Abby Wambach -
For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
Ferdinand Mount
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
Barbara Kingsolver -
In America, we eat until we're full, which means we usually go past the point of satiety because satiety actually follows digestion.
Harley Pasternak -
There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.
William Halsey -
A woman's heart is such a complex problem - the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution to this puzzle.
Emma Orczy -
It is shaming sometimes how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum’s sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted a blush?
Ian Mcewan