Gene Wolfe Quotes
'I pledged myself to show you wonders.'I drew her farther from the building. 'I’m not ready to see wonders. Yours, or any other woman’s.'Gene Wolfe
Quotes to Explore
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
Orlando Bloom -
The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
Carl Paladino -
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
J. Paul Getty -
What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.
Candace Parker -
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
Larry Niven -
I'm really focusing now on how I can get to the next level as a batsman. How can I get even more competitive? How can I get even more consistent? How can I get better?
Sachin Tendulkar
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The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.
Patrick Stewart -
If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.
Yann Martel -
Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
D. H. Lawrence -
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
Youssou N'Dour -
Non-violence and kindness to living beings is kindness to oneself. For thereby one's own self is saved from various kinds of sins and resultant sufferings and is able to secure his own welfare.
Mahavira -
When we speak of the commerce with our American colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
Edmund Burke
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Law is mighty, mightier necessity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
Eleanora Fagan -
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Aeschylus -
For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.
David Harewood -
An absence of credible information prevents citizens from participating in public decision-making, particularly on key issues of concern such as education, health, and governance.
Ory Okolloh -
Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me. I was just inherently funny when I was a kid.
Pauly Shore
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My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an appropriate tool for exploring that.
John Burnside -
They can't understand why any American in his right mind who's not escaping a jail term or something, would voluntarily want to come to South Korea and live here.
Brian Reynolds Myers -
Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been in a rock-metal band for a long time, and I still feel like, personally, I have a lot of influence from that. My classical influence, you can find spots here and there.
Anton Zaslavski -
God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
Theodore Roethke -
A lot of millennials really want a company that signs their paycheck, or whoever it is that signs their paycheck, to be an entity that reflects to them in a way that is consistent with their personal idea of who they are.
Jason Kander -
'I pledged myself to show you wonders.'I drew her farther from the building. 'I’m not ready to see wonders. Yours, or any other woman’s.'
Gene Wolfe