John Millington Synge Quotes
When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen.John Millington Synge
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
Baha'u'llah -
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund Burke -
They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
Imran Khan -
Where love is, there God is also.
Mahatma Gandhi -
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
Jack Youngblood -
I never feel there's anything I can't do.
Daniel Clowes -
They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
Barney Ross -
I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
Sam Shepard -
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
Pat Conroy -
It's funny because everyone says, 'Oh you're reclusive; you don't do social media,' but it's not about being reclusive. I like direct contact, and I like contact that's purposeful.
Banks
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
Nadia Comaneci -
I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
Gail Carriger -
I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
Rachel Kushner -
Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
Dan Gilbert -
When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
Bat for Lashes -
The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
Laura Miller
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Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.
John Ray -
In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.
Thomas Sowell -
In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.
Dan Simmons -
A Jewish convert said to me once, 'The Communists hate God, and the Catholics love Him. But they are both facing Him, directing their attention to Him. They are not indifferent. Communists are not in so bad a case as those who are indifferent. It is the lukewarm that He will spew out of His mouth.'
Dorothy Day -
I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.
Ernest Hemingway -
When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen.
John Millington Synge