John Crowe Ransom Quotes
Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast.
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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I see myself as a story teller.
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When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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It's different for every project. Some parts are quicker than others to get and know; sometimes right up until the last moment you're just praying that something will click. But you can only do a certain amount of work and then at some point you've got to think: 'OK, I'm just going to have to leap now.'
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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I think, generally, romantic stories end with people together. But I'd like a story that ends, like, hopefully but not necessarily neatly.
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Prayer is an effort of will.
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How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.
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I didn't want to write a pure fantasy novel, though I love those and grew up on J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula LeGuin.
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But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.
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Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast.
