Mel Brooks Quotes
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A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.
Orville Wright -
I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.
Gad Elmaleh -
I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
Usher -
The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.
Umberto Eco -
If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
Isaac Hayes -
Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
Ignatius of Antioch -
I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.'
Walter Payton -
The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
Walter Bagehot -
I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.
Damon Lindelof -
The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.
Edmund White -
My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.
Dani Shapiro
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I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.
Ferran Adria -
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun; Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Why, what a wonderful piece of luck! Here is a red rose! I have never seen any rose like it in all my life. It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name.
Oscar Wilde -
Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
Camille Paglia -
Rose, oh reiner Widerspruch, Lust, Niemandes Schlaf zu sein unter soviel Lidern.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
The idiots always rose to the top and made policy.It explained a lot of things.
Jack McDevitt
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Your slightest look easily will unclose me, though I have closed myself as fingers, you open petal by petal myself a Spring opens her first rose.
e. e. cummings -
I used to bottle up all of my emotions and never say anything. Even if something really made me mad, I'd be quiet.
Bryson Tiller -
I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend Lucky to have been where I have been Lucky to be coming home again
Jason Mraz -
Lady, it rose below vulgarity.
Mel Brooks