John Buchan Quotes
And yet - and yet! He had done the right thing, though the Lord alone knew how it would end. He began to pluck courage from his very melancholy, and hope from his reflexions on the transitoriness of life. He was austerely following Romance as he conceived it, and if that capricious lady had taken one dream from him she might yet reward him with a better.
John Buchan
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I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.
Wale
I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
T. J. Miller
Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
Gary Vaynerchuk
I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
Jack Adams
When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
Haile Gebrselassie
Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
Natalia Makarova
An oft-repeated anecdote is that which relates of an army officer, somewhat of a hero-worshiper, who, upon meeting Carson, exclaimed, effusively: 'So this is the great Kit Carson, who has made so many Indians run!' 'Yes,' drawled Carson, 'sometimes I run after them but most times they war runnin' after me.'
Kit Carson
He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
Florence King
I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.
Chris Crutcher
Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness.
Andrew Weil
Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.
Erica Jong
And yet - and yet! He had done the right thing, though the Lord alone knew how it would end. He began to pluck courage from his very melancholy, and hope from his reflexions on the transitoriness of life. He was austerely following Romance as he conceived it, and if that capricious lady had taken one dream from him she might yet reward him with a better.
John Buchan
