George Horace Lorimer Quotes
You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.George Horace Lorimer
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
Edmund Waller -
People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
Gallant -
It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
Hannah Cowley -
Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
Calvin Klein -
It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.
Lady Gregory -
I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
Barbara Kingsolver
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My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.
Fay Wray -
To fight a war, you must believe it can accomplish something. We fight this one to save John’s kingdom, or perhaps even to save all of mankind...but isn’t that what we always think? That all wars are useless-except the one we’re fighting now?
Tad Williams -
I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was probably in bed with Wall Street.
Matt Taibbi -
The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
Alva Myrdal -
Now, everyone has their talents, but working with props is not one of mine.
Lela Loren -
I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.
Brigitte Bardot
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I believe that rock and roll can really make a huge impact on people's lives.
Ed Kowalczyk -
The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.
Jill Abramson -
Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.
Jason Schwartzman -
I did not have any private meetings nor do I recall any conversations with any Russian officials at the Mayflower Hotel.
Jeff Sessions -
I don't go to a psychiatrist. I don't go to a gym. I run away from my accountant, I run away from my dentist. They are all supposed to help you, but I like to stay in bed, where I have a chance to reflect, like Rossellini.
Marlene Dumas
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell -
Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I'm gay, then I think I'll be fine. I can handle it.
Zac Efron -
To get people to switch from Google, you have to offer something twice as better. But the truth is, the world doesn't actually need better-quality search. I think we've got good enough search.
Jason Calacanis -
I believe that at every level of society the key to a happier world is the growth of compassion. We do not need to become religious, nor do we need to believe in an ideology. All that is necessary is for each of us to develop our good human qualities.
Dalai Lama -
The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
P. J. O'Rourke -
You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.
George Horace Lorimer