Gene Wolfe Quotes
'You’re a poet too, aren’t you? And a good liar, I bet.''I was the Autarch of Urth; that required a little lying, if you like. We called it diplomacy.'Gene Wolfe
Quotes to Explore
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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
Eddie Izzard -
I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
Gary Cole -
Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
Olivier Martinez -
What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
Kate Hudson -
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
Harold Prince -
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
Walter Gropius -
I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
Gary Sherman -
It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
Ted Turner -
It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
Natalia Vodianova
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
Natalia Makarova -
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
Yehuda Berg -
So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
Nathan Sawaya -
Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, 'Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I'm totally grateful, but I'm not Latin. I can't do that. I play Latin.'
Vanessa Ferlito
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The collages I never wanted to sell. I thought it was a very private thing, so I kept the collages. Then, in the end, I had a big collage in the Pinault Collection in Venice and the director of the Centre Pompidou said, "Did you make big collages like this in the '60s?" I said yes, so he came to the studio and said, "Let's make an exhibition in the Pompidou."
Erro -
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Even pain pricks to livelier living.
Amy Lowell -
I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.
Philip Roth -
I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
Adam Ferrara -
'You’re a poet too, aren’t you? And a good liar, I bet.''I was the Autarch of Urth; that required a little lying, if you like. We called it diplomacy.'
Gene Wolfe