Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.
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Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .
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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.
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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?
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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.
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I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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.
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'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'
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Fear makes us stronger, puts us on our toes. We’ve got to embrace it. Issie
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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.
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I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings
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I always loved going to Hawai'i; it was very, very special.
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I got a head of steam going when I picked his pass off and went the other way, ... It was just nice to get a win and get a couple of goals.
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From the standpoint of the world’s biota, global travel represents a radically new phenomenon and, at the same time, a replay of the very old. The drifting apart of the continents that Wegener deduced from the fossil record is now being reversed—another way in which humans are running geologic history backward and at high speed. Think of it as a souped-up version of plate tectonics, minus the plates. By transporting Asian species to North America, and North American species to Australia, and Australian species to Africa, and European species to Antarctica, we are, in effect, reassembling the world into one enormous supercontinent—what biologists sometimes refer to as the New Pangaea.
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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
