James Russell Lowell Quotes
These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred,Each softly lucent as a rounded moon;The diver Omar plucked them from their bed,Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.James Russell Lowell
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
J. D. Souther -
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Abraham Lincoln -
I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
Naomie Harris -
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
Cardinal Richelieu -
Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
Vicente Fox -
Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
Lamorne Morris -
Breitbart media is named after the same gentleman who basically framed Shirley Sherrod during the Obama administration.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
Walter Gropius -
I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
Gabrielle Anwar -
One cannot plan for the unexpected.
Aaron Klug -
I'm not graceful.
Karlie Kloss
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
Ralph Lauren -
Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and no one else trying to hurt America.
Van Jones -
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
Victor Hugo -
Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.
Sam Altman -
I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
Sam Hunt -
There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.
Maggie Rowe
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar Wilde -
Not a coincidence it’s always men and boys committing mass shootings. The pattern is connected to ideas of toxic masculinity in our culture.
Anita Sarkeesian -
Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.
David Sedaris -
One must choose in all things a mean just and good.
Pythagoras -
I try to write every day, preferably first thing in the morning. Of course, there are days when something happens to interfere with this ideal schedule. Then I try to find time later in the day. I usually work at home, but sometimes, for a change I'll go to a library or a cafe. And I like to read poetry before I sit down to write.
Sigrid Nunez -
These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred,Each softly lucent as a rounded moon;The diver Omar plucked them from their bed,Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.
James Russell Lowell