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According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

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• You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Time
  • Story
  • Inspired

• That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Good
  • Country
  • Money

• I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Home

• I'm very much bigger than I was, so what? It's not really fatness, it's development.

  

  Anita Ekberg
  • Development
  • Bigger
  • Fatness

• The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.

  

  Derek Jarman
  • Good
  • City
  • Queens

• Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

  

  Harvey Mackay
  • God
  • Humble
  • Thankful

• There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Spirit
  • Heartbroken

• Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.

  

  Plato
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Confused

• I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. Bu t my intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Time
  • Space
  • Development

• The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Desire
  • Danger
  • Angels

• The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Opinion
  • Authority
  • Distinction

• Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Train

• I'm not entirely sure what a historical novel absolutely has to be, but you don't want a reader who loves a very traditional historical novel to go in with the expectation that this is going to deliver the same kind of reading experience. I think what's contemporary about my book has something to do with how condensed things are.

  

  Danielle Dutton
  • Book
  • Expectations
  • Reader

• To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.

  

  Karen White
  • Giving
  • Chance
  • Regret

• I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly - and with very little financial encouragement - saving lives and minds. I can’t think of a more efficient, hopeful or egalitarian machine, with the possible exception of the bicycle.

  

  Kay Ryan
  • Mind
  • College
  • Fact

• We were also going to develop relations with the current administration [of Barack Obama], but somehow they did not work out well in key areas and, I believe, not through our fault. I will not list all the problems that emerged in the past few years.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Problem

• According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Relation
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