Rudyard Kipling Quotes
If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!Rudyard Kipling
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
Karen Fairchild Little Big Town -
When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
Pablo Picasso -
Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
Zachary Levi -
Decolonisation seems to have dented little the sense of superiority that since 1945 has made American leaders in particular consistently underestimate the intensity of nationalist feeling in Asia and Africa.
Pankaj Mishra -
Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.
Aaron Neville
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I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
Salman Rushdie -
I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
Barbara Bush -
I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
Olesya Rulin -
It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
W. Averell Harriman -
There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.
Mads Mikkelsen -
I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
Taylor Swift
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The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.
Tamora Pierce -
I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
K. A. Applegate -
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
Gabriel Iglesias -
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
T. S. Eliot -
For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.
Jack Osbourne
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It's so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away.
Ben Harper -
I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
Ava Gardner -
There was a time when cell animation was poison, but after Family Guy now everyone wants it.
Mike Judge -
If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!
Rudyard Kipling