Ernest Gaines Quotes
When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.Ernest Gaines
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
Ovid -
Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
Iris Apfel -
I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
N. Murray Edwards -
Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
E. Joseph Cossman -
It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.
Uday Kotak -
Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.
Nate Berkus
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
Hannah Simone -
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
Salman Rushdie -
It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
W. C. Fields -
I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
Vincent Cassel -
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone
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James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong – he's good.
Captain Beefheart -
John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.
Tab Hunter -
People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.
Barry Schwartz -
I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
Major Owens -
I called this press conference today to talk about a new challenge that i will face, a personal one – one that requires me, once again, to be an underdog and a fighter. A few days ago, I was diagnosed with cancer, aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkins lymphoma, to be specific – which is a cancer of the lymph nodes.
Larry Hogan -
Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
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In spite of everything, I still believe that people are truly good at heart.
Kurt Huber -
You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like the pyramids. The highest place I can find. Where you can see forever. Stand on the very top, look all around the world, see all the scenery, and see with my own eyes what's been lost from the world.
Haruki Murakami -
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
Idries Shah -
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
Harold Brodkey -
I think, when I started writing songs, my voice just became another tool. It wasn't something that I was going to try desperately to woo a listener. As long as I'm using my voice in a way that helps people understand what I'm trying to say, then I feel like I'm doing all right.
Laura Mvula -
When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.
Ernest Gaines