James Wolcott Quotes
Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.James Wolcott
Quotes to Explore
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Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.
Daniel D. Palmer -
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
Ovid -
We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
Laura Dern -
As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
Van Morrison -
A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
Sam Graves -
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
Lara St. John -
Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
Fatema Mernissi -
Simply put, our nation's economy will only go as far as our small businesses will take it.
Sam Graves -
I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.
Rainn Wilson -
We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.
Eduard Buchner -
I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.
Laura Schlessinger
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
Taye Diggs -
We see an entire planet which has many limitations.
Ralph Merkle -
I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now is my scars and weapon is my words, so I'm still serving.
J. R. Martinez -
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
Ramana Maharshi -
As soon as there is life there is danger.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I am a relaxed person. I am very happy.
Nadia Comaneci
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I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
Alma Guillermoprieto -
I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
My career progressed slowly. Real slow at a time. The irony of it was I had the best part of my career between when I was 45 and 49 years old. That's when most people are in their twilight, waiting to get to the Champions Tour. And that's when I made most of my hay.
Fred Funk -
We have lost one shuttle for every 57 flights and that is not a good ratio. I do believe we need to continue space flights, but maybe we can follow the example of the Russians and use unmanned vehicles to transport hardware into space.
Lincoln Davis -
All gunners were deaf, they said. They were the kings of the battlefield and they never heard the applause.
Bernard Cornwell -
Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.
James Wolcott