Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes

There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.

Hector Hugh Munro

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  Ed Wood
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• GIS is being influenced by and integrating with all kinds of new innovations such as faster computing, big data, the cloud, smart devices, and distributed processing.

  

  Jack Dangermond
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• I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.

  

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• People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.

  

  Dane Cook
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• There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.

  

  Garth Brooks
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• I don't think about the media.

  

  Zara Phillips
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• History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.

  

  Malorie Blackman
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• I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.

  

  Imelda May
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• I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Way
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• Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Bad
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  • Word

• I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Life
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• I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
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• The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Success
  • You
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• It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • People
  • May
  • Tree

• To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.

  

  Mark Lazarevich Levi
  • Good
  • Done

• If you want to know what you were conditioned to believe as a child, look at how you treat yourself now.

  

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• Submitting myself for awards feels like a weird kind of horn-blowing that's not comfortable for me. I'm really happy when someone likes my work, but I don't like marketing myself, putting myself on display.

  

  Jane Elliot
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• Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.

  

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• The Free Exercise Clause protects the individual from any coercive measure that encourages him toward one faith or creed, discourages him from another, or makes it prudent or desirable for him to select one and embrace it.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Exercise
  • Individual
  • Embrace

• We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.

  

  Ian Jackson
  • Great
  • Quality
  • Value

• To me, I approach a small-budget, artsy, European movie the same way as a big commercial Hollywood movie. That's the most important thing. Hollywood usually represents this big dream in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Work
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• I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.

  

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  • Believe
  • Country
  • Relationship

• There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Rules
  • Comfort