Gene Wolfe Quotes
We don't harm the gods when we mingle their names with our curses and obscenities. We harm ourselves. I said that I didn't regard most gods as holy, but they don't have to be for our malice and mockery to recoil upon ourselves.Gene Wolfe
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My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.
Laura Carmichael -
When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
R. Kelly -
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
Hans Hofmann -
I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
Carly Rae Jepsen -
I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
Lady Gaga -
As we've learned in 1941, national emergencies can create strange bedfellows.
Dan Coats
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The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do.
J Allard -
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson -
Say something personal, not from a publicist.
D. B. Sweeney -
When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
Felix Dennis -
The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience.
Nancy Gibbs -
I can count on one hand how many people I trust.
Frances Bean Cobain
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Islam is a peaceful religion.
Youssou N'Dour -
I'd really love to be a versatile, chameleon-like actress, stretching myself a bit.
Gabriella Wilde -
I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun my weapons training and the SAS type training that's getting me fit.
Sadie Frost -
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Hannah Arendt -
You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
Wallis Simpson -
My relationship with Alan Shatter is a professional relationship: obviously worked with him over the years, complimented him for his work as a reforming minister, and move on.
Enda Kenny
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My family barbecued a lot; good barbecue is more complicated than you think.
Manish Dayal -
I think I've been asked a lot more than most TV producers to go on-camera. But I just do what I do and don't think about the package.
Chris Carter -
I can truly say, after an experience of seventy years, that all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my whole life, are light, when balanced with my sufferings in childhood and youth from the theological dogmas which I sincerely believed. . . . The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstitions of the Christian religion.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.
Esther Williams -
We don't harm the gods when we mingle their names with our curses and obscenities. We harm ourselves. I said that I didn't regard most gods as holy, but they don't have to be for our malice and mockery to recoil upon ourselves.
Gene Wolfe