Walt Whitman Quotes
God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.Walt Whitman
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
Barton Gellman -
As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
Park Chan-wook -
I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
Sally Field -
There is no better high than discovery.
E. O. Wilson -
I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.
Ian Mckellen -
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Laila Ali
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The world is my workshop. It is not my home.
Abbas Kiarostami -
I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.
Harlan Coben -
I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
Ian Hamilton Finlay -
I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
Kara Lindsay -
I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
Ralph Fiennes -
Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
Warren Bennis
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I've spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do things effectively. And when I dress, I dress for me. I don't dress to make other people think that I'm this way or that way.
Teddy Sears -
He's put a lock on the door of the House of Commons and he refuses to face the people of Canada through their elected representatives
Jack Layton -
Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream
Zooey Deschanel -
The label didn't want me to do this look. But cutting my hair, it made me stand out as an artist. I don't care who likes it-this is me.
Rihanna -
Ma 'l populo facea come i più fanno,Ch'ubbidiscon più a quei che più in odio hanno.
Ludovico Ariosto -
If I could read your mind loveWhat a tale your thoughts could tellJust like a paperback novel just like the kind a drug store would sellWhen you reach the part where the heart aches come the hero would be meBut heroes often failAnd you won't read that book again because the endings just too hard to take..
Gordon Lightfoot
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I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
All athletes need three things: commitment, discipline and hard work. Without that it's hard to keep running.
Haile Gebrselassie -
When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?
Maaza Mengiste -
We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important.
Jim Valvano -
God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.
Walt Whitman