Max Beerbohm Quotes
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
Hank Aaron -
Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.
Karl Lagerfeld -
And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
Utada Hikaru -
I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
Sam Kean -
Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
Nagarjuna -
A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.
Tamra Davis
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Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
Vidal Sassoon -
I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
Walter Kohn -
There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
Umberto Eco -
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler -
I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.
Larry Bishop -
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
Wendell Berry
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If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!
Olivia Colman -
If you are an outsider looking at India, learn to filter out both the irrational exuberance and the excessive pessimism. We're subject to both. You will become manic-depressive if you follow our moods.
Raghuram Rajan -
Never in endless time will ring a sound as sweetly As when a human heart in God is tuned completely.
Angelus Silesius -
The town horse, used to gaudy trappings, no doubt despises the work of his country brother; but yet, now and again, there comes upon him a sudden desire to plough.
Anthony Trollope -
With any luck. Stark smiled cynically. Not that he did not believe in luck. Rather, he had found it to be an uncertain ally.
Leigh Brackett -
I wanted to do a degree in something I was interested in before going into acting.
James Norton
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Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for the expansion of government power. What fairness means in practice is that third parties -- busybodies -- can prevent mutual accommodations by others.
Thomas Sowell -
If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
Laura Esquivel -
I've been through a lot as far as love.
Leighton Meester -
My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhance what she had.
Francois Nars -
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
Max Beerbohm