James Stephens Quotes
We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.James Stephens
Quotes to Explore
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
Pablo Picasso -
Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
Ignatius of Antioch -
The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
Walter Ulbricht -
Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
Larry Ellison -
It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
Xavier Dolan -
If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
Mahershala Ali
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
Sam Smith -
I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.
Flume -
What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.
Malorie Blackman -
When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
Kangana Ranaut -
The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.
Naoto Kan -
Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
Patricia Ireland
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I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
Larry Wall -
I'm from Georgia, and everybody gathers around food in the South.
Zac Brown Band -
Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
Jack Vance -
During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.
Famke Janssen -
The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.
Rachel Cusk
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I listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls.
Ed Oxenbould -
There is no possible source of evil except good.
Saint Augustine -
Our hopes, like towering falcons, aimAt objects in an airy height;The little pleasure of the gameIs from afar to view the flight.
Matthew Prior -
"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are."
John Ruskin -
We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.
James Stephens