John Henry Newman Quotes
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.John Henry Newman
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
Tamsin Greig -
I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
Larry Bird -
I have a great team at WME.
Octavia Spencer -
The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
Orison Swett Marden -
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson -
Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.
Orison Swett Marden
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
Barry Eisler -
I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.
Dan Hicks -
I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
Damon Albarn Gorillaz -
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
Joanne Rowling -
I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.
Samantha Shannon -
I don't think it's a coincidence that 'The War Room' and 'A Perfect Candidate' are films that have been consistently shown and available for rental for 20 years. These are films that are more about the moment in which they were filmed: they also have a great deal to say about larger issues about who we are as a country.
R. J. Cutler
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If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will be approved by the greatest power, that is a very dangerous thing.
Walter Cronkite -
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
F. Sionil Jose -
When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
S. E. Hinton -
If I were a congressman who had voted for the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, I'd claim it was forced on our country by a sinister international organization.
P. J. O'Rourke -
If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.
Taylor Swift -
What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.
Kate Bush
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It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.
C. S. Lewis -
In the free world, your days pass very quickly because you have so many things to do, and you're in control of your life.
Ingrid Betancourt -
It is important to exhaust the potential of existing markets. But it is equally important to open up new markets.
Martin Winterkorn -
It's all about being comfortable, forgetting there's a microphone in front of you.
Anderson East -
Our manifesto, whatever it will be called, will come from the people who are really in charge of this country, and that's the American people.
John Boehner -
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
John Henry Newman