James Thurber Quotes
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.James Thurber
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
Carine Roitfeld -
Sharing is the essence of social media.
Zoe Sugg -
My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.
Hailee Steinfeld -
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman -
I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!
Victoria Pendleton
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Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
Fareed Zakaria -
I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
H. L. Mencken -
If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.
Uday Kotak -
I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
Tavi Gevinson -
Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.
Kate Mara
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When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.
Karin Slaughter -
I'm absolutely convinced that the very small global warming we are experiencing is the result of natural causes. It's a cyclical phenomenon in the history of the Earth. The role of man is very small, almost negligible.
Vaclav Klaus -
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
Ovid -
John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
Carl Bernstein -
Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.
Ramez Naam -
You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.
Dan Severson
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Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'
Chris Carter -
If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.
Mario Andretti -
When I hear the word Culture I take out my checkbook
Barbara Kruger -
When you live in America, it's kind of insular - the news coverage that you get - unless you're really smart about it and find more international news coverage.
Kim Raver -
Sleep. Sleep. Sleep. Me? You can't ask me that question. I sleep.
Darnell Dockett -
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
James Thurber