John Keegan Quotes
I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.John Keegan
Quotes to Explore
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
E. W. Howe -
You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
Yitzhak Shamir -
Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
Malcolm Boyd -
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe -
The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
Maggie Smith -
No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
Samuel Beckett -
A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.
Randi Weingarten -
I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
Patricia MacLachlan -
I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.
Walter Cronkite -
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
Samuel Johnson -
I love wearing green, and I like grey and black, but I don't think they really suit me.
Kate Williams -
It's interesting to play a real-life person who has already been a character on 'Saturday Night Live.'
Laura Dern -
A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.
P. J. O'Rourke -
All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
Oscar Wilde
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Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorbing those experiences and somehow making intuitive responses in future situations that resemble them in some way.
Daniel Tammet -
The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our finance minister, Derek Keys, and he convinced them of the necessity to stay within the free-market principles that had been in force in South Africa for decades.
F. W. de Klerk -
Grafenwalder shoots a sidelong glance at Ursula Goodglass, wondering what their marriage must be like. Clearly sex isn’t in the cards, but he doubts that it was ever the main interest in their lives. Games, especially those of prestige and subterfuge, are amongst the chief entertainments of the Rust Belt moneyed.
Alastair Reynolds -
I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.
John Keegan