Russell Banks Quotes
One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, 'I hope that you will love me for no good reason.' But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another, to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers, especially to strangers who have neither good, nor bad reasons to love us.
Russell Banks
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
Palmer Luckey
Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
J. R. Smith
I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.
Rachel Kushner
It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.
LaToya Jackson
Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly.
Garrison Keillor
What's done to children, they will do to society.
Karl A. Menninger
I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
Maggie Smith
NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.
Fidel Castro
Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?
Mahalia Jackson
Reader, you may ask this question; in fact, you must ask this question: Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared mouse to fall in love with a beautiful human princess named Pea? The answer is... yes. Of course, it's ridiculous. Love is ridiculous.
Kate DiCamillo
Our aim may be as high as the endless sky, but we should have a resolve in our minds to walk ahead, hand-in-hand for victory will be ours.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
It would be ridiculous for me to say I am unlucky, but, like any other family and any other girl, I've had my ups and downs.
Poppy Delevingne
I was not a kid who watched every movie. I watched a very small number of movies over and over again.
Colin Trevorrow
Reversing structural problems in our economy that have been building up for two decades, that was gonna take time. It was gonna take more than a year. It was gonna take more than two years. It was gonna take more than one term. Probably takes more than one president.
Barack Obama
Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,With whom revenge is virtue.
Edward Young
Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.
Josephine Hart
I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers.
Marlee Matlin
One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, 'I hope that you will love me for no good reason.' But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another, to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers, especially to strangers who have neither good, nor bad reasons to love us.
Russell Banks