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You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.

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• I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Life
  • Man
  • Interesting

• The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • United States
  • Greatest

• I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Good
  • Work
  • Writing

• I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.

  

  Vicki Delany
  • Human
  • Said
  • Pressure

• My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Happy
  • Parents

• Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks, they tend to be bullish; someone who just sold is bearish.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Time
  • Learn

• I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Iron
  • Curtain

• I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Perfect
  • Search
  • Drawing

• That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Why
  • Doing
  • Tradition

• In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • People
  • Nature
  • Japanese

• There will be a sovereign Palestinian state, a sovereign Jewish state of Israel and those two states can, I think, will be able to deal with each other the same way all states do. I mean, you know, the United States and Canada has arguments once in a while, but they’re not the nature of arguments that can’t be solved diplomatically.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Nature

• My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character as an author, he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Character
  • Friend
  • Opinion

• I grew up in war-torn Iraq, and I believe that there are two sides of wars and we've only seen one side of it. We only talk about one side of it. But there's another side that I have witnessed as someone who lived in it and someone who ended up working in it.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • Believe
  • War

• How pleasant to sit on the beach,On the beach, on the sand, in the sun,With ocean galore within reach,And nothing at all to be done!.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Done
  • Sun
  • Ocean

• He is a dreamer of ancient times, or rather, of the myths of what ancient times used to be. Such men are harmless in themselves, but their queer lack of realism makes them fools for others.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Men
  • Dreamer

• Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.

  

  Annie Besant
  • May
  • Control
  • Service

• It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Single

• Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves.

  

  Jesse James Garrett
  • Work
  • Different
  • Writing

• When I was happily married and found myself pregnant, I just thought that this would be just the next, normal chapter. I was absolutely thrilled. So what a surprise it was when it turned out to be the hardest thing I've ever done.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Done
  • Myself
  • Thought

• The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Free

• There is time to go long, time to go short and time to go fishing.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Long
  • Business
  • Fishing

• You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.

  

  Garrett Fort