Harry Mathews Quotes
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.Harry Mathews
Quotes to Explore
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham -
When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
Harrison Birtwistle -
When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.
Hannah Kent -
Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
Baltasar Kormakur -
The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
Indira Gandhi
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Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
E. V. Lucas -
My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.
Lalu Prasad Yadav -
We shared our father with the world.
Laila Ali -
You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
Barbara Bush -
It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.
Kate Mulgrew -
L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.
Sam Claflin
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In the 1920s, big names in the Arab world spoke of Scheherazade as an example for intellectuals fighting for their rights. She was a fighter for the right of free expression.
Fatema Mernissi -
Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
Walter Raleigh -
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Samuel Johnson -
Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will - will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.
Orson Scott Card -
If I'm such a fucking menace? This shit doesn't make sense, B! It's all political. If my music is literal, then I'm a criminal. How the FUCK can I raise a little girl? I couldn't, I wouldn't be fit to.
Eminem -
Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.
Jason Silva
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I think people take a liking to a voice or something that makes them smile and feel good about themselves.
Jess Glynne -
Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.
Patrick Lencioni -
I believe in solitude broken like bread by poetry.
Anne Hebert -
Even a hunter cannot kill a bird which flies to him for refuge.
Chiune Sugihara -
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.
Harry Mathews