Jonathan Brown 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 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 put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.
Dana Delany -
If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
Isaac Hayes -
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
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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 -
My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.
Yo-Yo Ma -
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 -
I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.'
Karen Abbott -
Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
Camille Paglia
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The rose is fairest when 't is budding new,And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
Walter Scott -
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 -
A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.
Larry McMurtry -
Then rose up the horror which would make civilized man shun justice like a plague if he had not the needy to serve him as hangmen for wages.
T. E. Lawrence -
For inspiration I look to those great players who consistently found original ways to shock their opponents. None did this better than the eighth world champion, Mikhail Tal. The 'Magician of Riga' rose to become champion in 1960 at age twenty-three and became famous for his aggressive, volatile play.
Garry Kasparov
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The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of children, already gathered like crikets on the grass, rose through the hot twilight.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?
Cecelia Ahern -
Don't thank me,' Mr. Curtain called as the door slid closed. 'Impress me!
Trenton Lee Stewart -
The Malagasy people must have the liberty to choose their own future.
Andry Rajoelina -
Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation
William Shakespeare -
Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion.
Jonathan Brown