Ernest Hemingway Quotes
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.Ernest Hemingway
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
Karolyn Grimes -
I just want my films to work. The hit or flop verdict really affects me. I seriously analyse what went wrong if a film turns out to be a dud!
Samantha Ruth Prabhu -
Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.
Patrick Ness -
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
A. E. Housman -
I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
Kate Burton -
My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
Aaron Diehl
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
Hakeem Olajuwon -
If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
Ted Shackelford -
My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
Walter Hagen -
I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
Sam Heughan -
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
Jacob Bronowski -
I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
Pablo Sandoval
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
J. C. Watts -
For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
Pankaj Mishra -
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
Gary Miller Bad Brains -
We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
Baldwin Spencer -
I never really did any disco dancing.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
Adam Derek Scott -
When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
Hamza Yusuf -
Uniformity is the friend of scalability.
Karl Iagnemma -
If you're in pop music, you've got to deal with the changing of the guard every few years. By the time the '70s arrived, I was well aware of the cyclical nature of the game. Pop music is a creature of the moment; it thrives on the mood of its time. Either you hook into that or you're not going to be part of it.
Paul Anka -
I'm never going to do something that I don't want to do, because I've been given the opportunity to not have to do that.
Maisie Williams -
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
Ernest Hemingway