Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.Hector Hugh Munro
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
Jackie Collins -
New York apartments are notoriously small, and my cute little studio is no exception - space is at a premium, which is one of the reasons that I only have a mini-fridge. Great for leftovers, cheese, and chilling Diet Coke.
Rachel Sklar -
I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.
Zach Galifianakis -
Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .
Vincent Van Gogh -
Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.
Albert Einstein -
How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology?
Albert Einstein
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I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.
Albert Einstein -
I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
Wislawa Szymborska -
Everyone's got their problems and their demons, but when we get onstage and play as five, that really all goes away, and that's really all I look at.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith -
'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'
Lewis Carroll -
Fear makes us stronger, puts us on our toes. We’ve got to embrace it. Issie
Carrie Jones
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It's an amazing feeling to feel that I was able to get a personal connection to the work, through the work of it. But I like the idea that I was able to tell a bunch of people's stories even though I didn't know them.
Azazel Jacobs -
Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.
Hannah Arendt -
I think I have a vested interest in thinking that the lyrics are important, but I think for us it's important that we all write things that mean something to us, and I think we're not really in the business of writing la-la-love-you chart pop songs. It needs to have a personal pulling in the gut for me, to want to write anything about it.
Lauren Mayberry Chvrches -
I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
Yoko Ono -
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
Earl Nightingale -
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
Hector Hugh Munro