Jonathan Swift Quotes
The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.Jonathan Swift
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
Zoe Kravitz -
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Vince Lombardi -
What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
Kate Moss -
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
D. H. Lawrence -
I like to build things. I like to do things.
Walter Chrysler -
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
Gay Talese
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It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
Yolandi Visser -
People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
Ed Koch -
If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
Orson Welles -
I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
Patrick Troughton -
I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
Idina Menzel -
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
Abraham Verghese
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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
Pamela Nicholson -
I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.
Lake Bell -
Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.
Adam Carolla -
The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for myself.
Larry Drake -
I've loved cartoons all along. Most people outgrow that when they hit 10 or 12, I guess, but I never did. I'm not sure why.
Warren Spector -
Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical.
T.I.
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The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.
Walter Martin -
I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.
Tommy Bolin -
In the 21st century, government efforts should focus on 'multiculturalism', including the diversity of languages.
Eduardo Bhatia -
America is much better than the leadership we have in Washington.
John Fleming -
When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.
Pawel Pawlikowski -
The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.
Jonathan Swift