Ernest Gaines Quotes
I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.Ernest Gaines
Quotes to Explore
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Writers should provoke disagreement.
V. S. Naipaul -
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
Larry David -
I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
Quincy Jones -
Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
Natassia Malthe
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
H. R. McMaster -
Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
E. L. Doctorow -
Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they've got into being their own boss.
Fabrizio Moreira -
It's obviously disappointing and surreal when you see someone else win the Stanley Cup.
Patrick Kane -
My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I refuse to dress 'hot' for Halloween, 'cause I always have to have makeup and hair and look cute for my job. So on Halloween, I either go gory or weird or funny.
Rachel Platten
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It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
Jack Kilby -
I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
Camille Pissarro -
People feel good about doing things with you if you're enthusiastic.
Elizabeth Mitchell -
Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.
Bob Saget -
I'm not sure I know how to make music anymore. Maybe you're given a window into things for a time, and beyond that maybe it goes away. Why should you expect it to stay?
Nellie McKay -
At the end of the day, leaving WrestleMania, having my hand raised, beating Brock Lesnar... I'd say it was a pretty successful tenure.
Bill Goldberg
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Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.
Kevin McCloud -
Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.
Robert Baden-Powell -
I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore; it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about - it was very middle class; all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.
Anne-Marie Duff -
Nobody is suggesting that the NHS doesn't have to reform, nobody is suggesting that it doesn't have to become more efficient, that productivity growth doesn't have to become positive … The only difference is that in health, because of the demographic pressure, the savings will all – and more – have to be reinvested in delivering more healthcare.
Philip Hammond -
I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.
Ernest Gaines