John Dyer Quotes
St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.John Dyer
Quotes to Explore
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
Nazanin Boniadi -
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai -
I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
Zadie Smith -
Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
Paloma Faith -
Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
Carice van Houten -
You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
Victor Garber
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
A. J. P. Taylor -
My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
Harrison Ford -
I like being unconventional.
Florence Griffith Joyner -
Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
Ian McShane -
Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
Kate Forsyth -
People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
Patricia Kaas
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
Ovid -
I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
Maiara Walsh -
If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
Nate Silver -
When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
Yami Gautam -
As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
Maggie Stiefvater
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As long as our user base continues to grow, at some point it will have critical mass, and at some point it will tip, and at some point, people will just have to use WhatsApp because their friends are using WhatsApp.
Jan Koum -
In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist populists and the white and black populists working together in the nineteenth century.
Zephyr Teachout -
I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
Youssou N'Dour -
Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored the meal, a couple of cups of water or milk and slow stirring to break up lumps.
Dorothy Allison -
Climbing, as my grandmother said, it's a pretty frivolous thing. She always wondered when I was going to get a real job. But climbing is a real job for me now, and I enjoy it. It's a gift that I'm able to do it, share adventure and motivation with people.
Conrad Anker -
St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.
John Dyer