George Farquhar Quotes
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
Saffron Aldridge -
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
A. N. Wilson -
I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
Hari Kondabolu -
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
Larry Wall -
I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.
J. B. Smoove -
Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.
Sammi Hanratty
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
Natalie Massenet -
No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
P. J. O'Rourke -
As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
Larry Niven -
Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.
Bai Ling -
That was the thing about tragedy. It was just sitting there, keeping you company, waiting. And you had absolutely no idea.
Kate DiCamillo -
Some of his neighbors found out what I was doing and offered him fatherly advice. It was dangerous to educate slaves, they warned. Education made blacks dissatisfied with slavery. It spoiled them for field work. The Methodist minister said it made them disobedient, made them want more than the Lord intended them to have.
Octavia E. Butler
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All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.
W. H. Auden -
I know you're all saying I can go to the moon but I can't find Pasadena.
Alan Shepard -
Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.
Colin Powell -
We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.
Dorothy Day -
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
Leo Durocher -
Between my hatred of mall shopping and my mother's firm ideas about how a girl should dress, my style choices were pretty unenthusiastic: plaid skirts or whatever empire-waisted thingamabob was on sale at Sears.
Mary Gaitskill
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My favorite kind of book is a domestic drama that's grounded in reality yet slightly unhinged.
Maria Semple -
As long as you say there is no hope, then there will be no hope, but if you go down and take a stance, then there will be hope.
Asmaa Mahfouz -
Sometimes when I sit own to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me.
Arthur Rubinstein -
..the feeling that pervades a city presented itself in the qualities of lines of force.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner -
Those who know the least, obey the best.
George Farquhar