John Gay Quotes
'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined.John Gay
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
Daniel Burnham -
When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.
Warren Beatty -
Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
Ida Lupino -
Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
Carl Honore -
Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
Ted Rall -
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. Perelman
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
Yanis Varoufakis -
Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
Ralph Steadman -
I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 - that's kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had never really planned on being in a band or anything like that. It was kind of a hobby I did on my own, just recording music.
Washed Out -
There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
Foster Friess -
I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.
T. J. Miller -
I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.
Vanessa Paradis
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
Victor Hugo -
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
Edmund White -
Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
Xavier Niel -
That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
Zig Ziglar -
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey
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There is a tendency to underestimate the power of what we can do without words. Sometimes you can make a scene even more powerful and precise without dialogue.
Mads Mikkelsen -
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
Samuel Butler -
I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
Ken Follett -
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
Socrates -
There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
G. Willow Wilson -
'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined.
John Gay