George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
Fernando Botero
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
Federico Fellini
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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
Abigail Johnson
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Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
Gary Snyder
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Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
Harold Washington
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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
Dan Jenkins
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I miss Colombia. It's a great place.
Camilo Villegas
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I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it.
Ted Allen
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
Larry David
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Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.
Kaitlin Doubleday
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A desert is a place without expectation.
Nadine Gordimer
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I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
Fidel Castro
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I won't tell anyone where my favourite place in Scotland is... but it might be somewhere on Skye.
Sam Heughan
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Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall.
Nate Berkus
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But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.
Edie Brickell
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
Galen Weston
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It is nice finding that place where you can just go and relax.
Moises Arias
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It seems to me then as if all the moments of our life occupy the same space, as if future events already existed and were only waiting for us to find our way to them at last, just as when we have accepted an invitation we duly arrive in a certain house at a given time.
W. G. Sebald
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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
Victor Hugo
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Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
H. L. Mencken
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When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.
Edvard Grieg
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Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
George Bernard Shaw