H. L. Mencken Quotes
By what route do otherwise sane men come to believe such palpable nonsense? How is it possible for a human brain to be divided into two insulated halves, one functioning normally, naturallyH. L. Mencken
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
Oskar Schindler -
You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
Carlos Ghosn -
Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
Larry Flynt -
I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
Olivier Martinez -
To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
e. e. cummings -
I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
Rachel McAdams
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
A. J. P. Taylor -
Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
Iris Apfel -
I love cars, but I love bikes more.
Candace Kita -
These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
Hari Kunzru -
The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
Carine Roitfeld -
A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
Rabih Alameddine
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
Tariq Ali -
I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
Laura Prepon -
One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
Hanya Yanagihara -
In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
Youssou N'Dour -
Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, 'No one's being nice enough to me!'
Kate Beckinsale -
I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
Dan Rather
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If you love Barry Manilow, you're gonna love the Insane Clown Posse. Love 'em. They're exactly... well, they're not EXACTLY alike, but they're a little bit alike...
Zach Galifianakis -
I believe I have a lot to learn in life, still.
Renee O'Connor -
If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.
Mirriam Johnson -
For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.
Jeff Flake -
For the first time in forever, he was stunned to silence. Not by her words, but by the tenderness in her hands, the worry in her eyes. He was an archangel. He’d been wounded far, far worse and shrugged it off. But then, there had been no woman with sun kissed by the sunset and eyes of storm gray to tear into him for daring to get himself hurt.
Nalini Singh -
By what route do otherwise sane men come to believe such palpable nonsense? How is it possible for a human brain to be divided into two insulated halves, one functioning normally, naturally
H. L. Mencken