Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
E. P. Thompson -
When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
J. C. Watts -
Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
Orhan Pamuk -
I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
Patricia Marx -
Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
Ralph Gibson -
I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
Farrah Fawcett
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Natalie Clifford Barney -
It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
Garth Brooks -
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen -
Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.
Quincy Jones -
Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
Talulah Riley -
Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
Carlos Ghosn
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I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.
Nate Berkus -
I like to laugh and make people have fun.
R. Kelly -
Just as China achieved much more than India in the realm of public health and education under an austere Communist regime, so its economic growth under a capitalist-friendly government strikes a visitor from India as nothing less than spectacular.
Pankaj Mishra -
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
W. Somerset Maugham -
In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.
Dalai Lama -
The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.
Patrick Rothfuss
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I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.
Marianne Williamson -
Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all.
Plutarch -
Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit.
S. D Gordon -
I have a very positive attitude in life. My insecurity, fear and need to know about tomorrow has fortunately eased. What is going to happen will happen anyway. So why break my head over it?
Katrina Kaif -
Everyone’s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.
Andrea Gibson -
And she was fair as is the rose in May.
Geoffrey Chaucer