Jeanette Winterson Quotes
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The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.
Taylor Mali -
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
Edgar Mitchell -
I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
Vikas Swarup -
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Abraham Maslow -
Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
Patricia Polacco
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To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
Baron d'Holbach -
I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
Eddie Murphy -
I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
Imogen Poots -
Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
Karel Capek -
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
Quintilian -
It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
Mal Peet
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It ain't over till it's over.
Yogi Berra -
Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.
Patrick McGoohan -
You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
A. E. van Vogt -
Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
Gabriel Marcel -
I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
Irving Penn
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I look back, and I know what I left behind in Lagarto when I pursued my own dream.
Diego Costa -
I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.
Mary-Louise Parker -
I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.
Philippa Gregory -
It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
Ferdinand Foch -
Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.
George McGovern -
It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
Jeanette Winterson