Jan Karon Quotes
I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.Jan Karon
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
Federica Mogherini -
I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
Yuna -
Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
Larry Hagman -
Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
Floyd Skloot -
Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
Fat Joe -
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
Adam Carolla -
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng -
I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
Imtiaz Ali -
The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
Zadie Smith -
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
Abraham Verghese -
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
P. D. James -
Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
Yukihiro Matsumoto -
A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
Walter Lang -
We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
Wadada Leo Smith
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.
David Ricardo -
Dear William Shakespeare. I am a 14 year old and I’m queer like you. I’m learning art. I wanted to be a queer artist like Leonardo or Michaelangelo. But I like Francis Bacon best I read Alan Ginsberg, Rimbaud. I like Tchaikovsky, if I make films I will make them like Eisenstein, Murnau, Pasolini, Visconti. Love from Derek.
Derek Jarman -
Rock is much more malleable than ideas.
Kim Stanley Robinson -
With the arrogance of youth, I thought, 'I don't drink, don't smoke, I don't do drugs, so why would I get cancer?' The week I spent waiting for the result of the biopsy to see if it was malignant felt like the longest of my life.
Jameela Jamil -
I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.
Jan Karon