John Buchan Quotes

Too young for wife, too old for child, but the ripe age for comrade - and such a comrade, for there was a boy's gallantry in her eyes and something of a child's confident fearlessness.

John Buchan

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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

Natasha Trethewey
Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.

Ingrid Newkirk
- Pretty
- Die
- Fire
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

Dana Goodyear
- Career
- Myself
- Poetry
I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'

Nadia Comaneci
- People
- You
- Nice
Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic
- Cool
- Star
- Big
There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.

J. H. Wyman
- People
- Know
- Week