Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.
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That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question.
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Somebody said I am the most popular person in Arizona because I am speaking the truth.
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'Iron Man' was this fun, poppy thing bound to make a zillion dollars. And we were the other side of a superhero movie. More complex with The Hulk being this complex character - that's what it was.
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When I arrived, I didn't understand London customers perfectly, but we've developed the right style with the right price, and step by step, I'm in harmony with London.
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For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
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With every project, there are things that surprise you with the meaning they take on as you start to use them.
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Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.
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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
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One of the most common misconceptions about Olympic sports is that they only happen at the Olympics.
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I guess I haven't gotten over being lost, a wandering gypsy.
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When I receive a new novel from a hopeful publisher - "hoping that I like the book as much as he does" - I check first of all how much dialog there is, and if it looks too abundant or too sustained, I shut the book with a bang.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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The poetical character... is not itself - it has no self - it is every thing and nothing - It has no character - it enjoys light and shade; it lives in gusto, be it fair or foul, high or low, rich or poor, mean or elevated. - It has as much delight in conceiving an Iago as an Imogen. What shocks the virtuous philospher, delights the camelion poet.
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Never send a boy to do a woman's job.
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But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
