Nicholas Sparks Quotes
Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure.Nicholas Sparks
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When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
Ban Ki-moon -
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
Gary Coleman -
Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
Carl Hiaasen -
When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
Pablo Picasso -
I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
Iman
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Decolonisation seems to have dented little the sense of superiority that since 1945 has made American leaders in particular consistently underestimate the intensity of nationalist feeling in Asia and Africa.
Pankaj Mishra -
We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
Barney Ross -
There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
Flannery O'Connor -
It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
W. Averell Harriman -
'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.
Kate Christensen
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
Taylor Swift -
I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
K. A. Applegate -
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
T. S. Eliot -
It was one of those things that I set forth as a goal after my surgery. I have been working very hard with the trainers and the team personnel.
Pablo Sandoval -
Care and pity are two different things.
Vince Staples
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
Kate Williams -
True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
Gaston Bachelard -
It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
Bram Stoker -
Dreams are never just dreams, they are reality waiting to happen.
Sarah Burton -
Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure.
Nicholas Sparks