John Irving Quotes
When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.John Irving
Quotes to Explore
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Gary Player -
I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
Danica McKellar -
You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
L'Wren Scott -
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
Wendell Berry -
Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
Isaac D'Israeli -
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Edmund Burke
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People would pay money to work at CNN.
Larry King -
Telecoms is a national business. There isn't a European market. There's no Telecom Italia in France.
Xavier Niel -
As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.
X. J. Kennedy -
For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.
Zaha Hadid -
We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for a cup of coffee.
Laura Carmichael -
I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great sacrifices for me. Every morning I saw my father get up and go to a job that he didn't really like. They came to France for the same reasons all immigrants move to another country - so their kids could have a better way of life.
Omar Sy
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Walt Whitman -
I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn.
Walton Goggins -
The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.
Fidel Castro -
I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.
Walton Goggins -
She snorted with a sudden violence which twenty-four hours earlier would have unmanned me completely. Even in my present tolerably robust condition, it affected me like one of those gas explosions which slay six.
P. G. Wodehouse -
As she sat in the low-backed carThe man at the turn-pike barNever asked for the tollBut just rubbed his auld pollAnd looked after the low-backed car.
Samuel Lover
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It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts.
Kelly Brook -
When people are like, 'Why are these white people walking around this black hood?' I'm like, 'Why aren't they?' If it ain't bothering nobody, they can do whatever they want! They're in the hood to make it better.
Sidney Royel Selby III -
It was tough to quit football. But after I was injured, I didn't want people paying money to see only half a John Matuszak.
John Matuszak -
When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.
John Irving