Jonathan Swift Quotes
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.Jonathan Swift
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
Vikram Seth -
I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
Madison Pettis -
What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
Rahm Emanuel -
My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
W. E. B. Griffin -
I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.
Danica Patrick -
Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
Carl Honore
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If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.
Tao Lin -
There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.
Daniel Everett -
I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.
Imelda Marcos -
I've had a period of drawing on canvas in black – with some of my early images coming thru -, think the non-objectivists will find them disturbing – and the kids who think it simple to splash a 'Pollock' out.
Jackson Pollock -
'I don't... I don't care,' he said softly to his reflection. 'I have a job to do. It doesn't matter what I have become. It doesn't matter what I look like.'
Garth Nix -
We are all made of air There's stars in my eyes and there's sun in my hair And I'm runnin' away, it makes me feel better
Zooey Deschanel
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I've never stopped writing, I've never slowed down just because I don't have something on the radio or a No. 1 or No. 2 record. That doesn't mean that I'm not in the studio planting seeds.
Jason Boyd -
I hate auditions.
Andie MacDowell -
Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.
James Cameron -
I love music; I love performance. I love everything revolving around art. But I also am really passionate about politics and human rights and science and the environment. Those are things that fascinate me.
Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony -
I kind of knew. I said, 'Yeah, I'm not going to be able to play in the NBA. That's just not going to happen. Let that dream go.'
Austin Seferian-Jenkins -
I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
Ben Whishaw
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Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,--these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy.
Catharine Sedgwick -
Nobody really tells me what's going on, and I find out via the trades myself.
Lucy Liu -
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
Jonathan Swift