John Burnside Quotes
If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how.John Burnside
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
Hans Jonas -
Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
Carine Roitfeld -
At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
Cara Delevingne -
German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
Pankaj Mishra -
The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
Jack Welch
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
J. R. Smith -
I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
Warren Zevon -
So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
Patrick J. Adams -
The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
Candice Swanepoel -
I always have the impression that I write the same book.
Patrick Modiano -
Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
Ian Somerhalder
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I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.
Lady Gaga -
The great thing about a name like 'Cougar Town' is that you hear it once and you remember it forever. It's a very 'loud' title. But there's a connection to the word 'cougar' that means a lot of people are going to be turned off right away by the title alone without even giving the show a chance.
Dan Byrd -
After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
Barry Eisler -
Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
Barry Williams -
Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.
Gary Owen -
This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
T. C. Boyle
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I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.
Chloe Sevigny -
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
Karl Popper -
All my mom's side speaks Spanish. I speak to my grandparents in Spanish. Slowly. And they're patient with me! But I do speak with them in Spanish and carry on conversations with them.
David Archuleta -
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
bell hooks -
Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.
Caleb Cushing -
If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how.
John Burnside