James Hubert Blake (Eubie Blake) Quotes
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
Warren Buffett -
I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
Patrick Rothfuss -
It's a complicated issue, and you can't boil it down in a tweet... two sentences cannot sum up the whole gun debate... The minute you try to talk about it honestly and openly, you get raked over the coals.
Dan Carter -
I started running, and I hated it. Of course, everyone hates running for the first mile. If you're running two miles or twenty miles, it always hurts. Now I live it. I look forward to it. It's really good. It clears my head.
Pamela Anderson -
Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
Madeleine Peyroux -
There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals. And the other commonality is that we wait too long.
Nathan Wolfe
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I really do believe there are things passed down. Behaviour, not just DNA. Psychological make-up. You can see it in dogs. If you want to breed a calm dog, don't get two fighters.
Felicity Kendal -
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
Washington Irving -
It's not about being upset about the things you might have said or done yesterday, which is quite appropriate at the moment. It's about looking forward rather than looking back. I hate people who look back on the past or talk about what might have been.
Noel Gallagher Oasis -
Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.
Abraham Lincoln -
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
William Lewis Safir -
I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.
Sarah Dessen
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
Herodotus -
Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.
Sharon Stone -
Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde -
"Remember this when you are queen," she breathed. "I told you my secrets."
Catherynne M. Valente -
I wish I had put a bet on, but thought it might have been disrespectful to the Holy Spirit.
Ann Widdecombe -
I wouldn't bet on a horse unless he came up to my house and told me to himself.
James Hubert Blake