Ian Mcewan Quotes
She sleepwalked from moment to moment, and whole months slipped by without memory, without bearing the faintest imprint of her conscious will.Ian Mcewan
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
Oren Peli -
The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
Daley Thompson -
I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.
Damon Hill -
Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
Laura Osnes -
Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
Zachary Levi -
The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
Rafael Nadal
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
Uma Thurman -
Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
Joanne Rowling -
A lot happens in 20 years.
Pat Morita -
Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.
Dan Bucatinsky -
It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
Ferdinand de Saussure -
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
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I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
Karl Rove -
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I always have the impression that I write the same book.
Patrick Modiano -
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
Hamza Yusuf -
We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
Barton Gellman