Pierre Corneille Quotes
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The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
Jack Vance -
I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
Oscar Robertson -
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
Samuel Johnson -
India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
Dan Brown
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Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.
Ireland Baldwin -
I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.
Bailey Chase -
I love to meet the fans. I just get embarrassed with those who weep. I don't know what to do or what to say. It's a very embarrassing situation.
Nathaniel Buzolic -
A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward.
Laura Chinchilla -
I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it's valuable.
Iris Apfel -
There are amendments never offered, there are bills never heard, that are basically killed because of the process.
Dan Webster
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Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.
Samuel E. Morison -
What we do tomorrow is more important than what we did yesterday.
Pankaj Patel -
To innovate is not to reform.
Edmund Burke -
I've been told that N.Y. in the spring is pretty special.
Natalie Dormer -
I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
e. e. cummings -
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
Florence Nightingale
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It's kind of interesting, because usually she's always there. She never withdraws. But you never know if your body is going to be there tomorrow.
Sasha Cohen -
Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.
William Wordsworth -
The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
Bill Gates -
I was champion soprano of Sussex when I was 16!
Lesley Manville -
In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
Pierre Corneille