H. L. Mencken Quotes
As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far - much greater than Hell, the radio or the bichloride tablet.H. L. Mencken
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It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.
Vance Joy -
The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
Earl Nightingale -
As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
Idina Menzel -
Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
Patrice Motsepe -
I live a good life but a pretty simply life. I just store all my money under my mattress. My wife and I travel, and I bought my dream car, the Cobra.
Aaron Paul -
As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
Ira Sachs
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
Karen Armstrong -
Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
Maggie Smith -
When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
Jack Whitehall -
I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
Iain Glen -
I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
Bat for Lashes
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If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
Adam Cohen -
Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
Mahmoud Darwish -
There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
M. J. Rose -
Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
Karl Malone -
The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
Wayne Dyer -
Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
Patrick Wilson
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I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
Anne Stevenson -
Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.
Anthony Hopkins -
I make a habit of setting aside some time each evening to take out my knitting and work quietly on it, happily relaxing. I believe that it prepares me for sleep and washes away the cares of my day.I will consider that intarsia, or Fair Isle with three or more colors in a row, prepares nobody for sleep and cursing loudly while flinging knitting around the living room is about as far away from soothing as you can get.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
I was taught to believe, "If you work hard, you will be successful. If you are not successful, it is because you didn't work hard enough."
Neal Gabler -
Lyndon Johnson, I know for a fact, was a great president. And I don't mean by that he was a great man.
Eileen Myles -
As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far - much greater than Hell, the radio or the bichloride tablet.
H. L. Mencken