Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection.

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• Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

  

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• I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.

  

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• Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

  

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• I actually like football a great deal.

  

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• May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

  

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• Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.

  

  Sally Hawkins
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• Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!

  

  Kate Spade
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• A lot of people have told me they have mothers like my mother. I seriously doubt it.

  

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• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

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• Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

  

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• My husband and I are just really laid back people.

  

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• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

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• I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.

  

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• All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

  

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• These are rotten, so you’re the QueenOf all are living, or have been.

  

  John Millington Synge

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• I've been online long enough to know if I don't like the first results I get, I go look for more.

  

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• Ἅπας δὲ τραχὺς ὅστις ἂν νέον κρατῇ.

  

  Aeschylus

• Words and thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man's body and affairs.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
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• Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Long
  • May
  • Light