Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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I am who I am.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
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We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
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Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.
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I am disappointed because nobody is talking about food and agriculture. They're talking about the diets of children, but they're talking about Band-Aids. We're not seeing a vision.
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I don't read much, I don't have the time. But I'm not at all happy about that; I want to read more. It's a promise I made to myself. I think it's important.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country - and indeed the world - has yet seen.
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I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My wife studied in Britain, too, and both of us have many friends there.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
