Jessamyn West Quotes
The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.Jessamyn West
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White -
There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
Ed Sheeran -
I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
Pablo Sandoval -
If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
Vince Lombardi -
Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
Zooey Deschanel -
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
J. G. Ballard
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
Ian Hacking -
My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
Samuel Lover -
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
Oscar Hijuelos -
Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
Xavier Niel -
Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
Jack Keane -
Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
Saint Augustine
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Women are sacred.
Vin Diesel -
The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
Patrick Stewart -
When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
Wendy Kopp -
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham -
We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
Vaclav Klaus -
Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
Earl Nightingale
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I don't need any more motivation. I'm fighting Canelo Alvarez. If that can't get me motivated, then I'm in the wrong sport.
Liam Smith -
We people spend so much time feeling so small and less than and insignificant and diminished because we see ourselves through our own lens.
Nichole Nordeman -
To process and close models in 50 states and 2,000-plus counties with the myriad of, just, tens of thousands of different regulations, customs, vendors - it's a monster. So the only way to do that is with technology. It really is rocket science.
Dan Gilbert -
On the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue sits the most famous concert hall in the world. No less a figure than when Tchaikovsky led the first performances in 1891. Virtually every major artist has performed there. There is simply no place like it. The first time I stepped foot in Carnegie Hall was in 1964.
Leonard Slatkin -
Every game has to teach you how to walk, run, talk, use.
Warren Spector -
The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.
Jessamyn West