M. John Harrison Quotes
Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.
M. John Harrison
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
Oliver Cromwell
The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
Dan Pink
I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
Raha Moharrak
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
Ram Kapoor
I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
Francia Raisa
I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
Francesca Annis
Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
Lajos Kossuth
I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
Taylor Sheridan
I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
Kangana Ranaut
In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
Vikram Patel
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seventeen seconds from game seven or from championship number six. Jordan...open...CHICAGO WITH THE LEAD!
Bob Costas
I am anything but a misogynist - I am quite far to the other side of that.
Gary Sherman
I'm an incredibly emotional person, but I always feel bad about that. The work is therapy... I need to emote wildly while I write. I weep. I'll laugh, get excited, and get up and pace. I try to take the emotional journey with the characters.
Matthew Quick
When I went to prom, I wore my hair down. But I love the idea of a long dress with your hair up. It's just gorgeous.
Bethany Mota
For me, the NFL is the thing that's always been, kind of somewhat like the Heisman, it's been a dream as a kid to be able to have an opportunity to even be talked about being able to play in the NFL.
Johnny Manziel
Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.
M. John Harrison
