Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.
Anaximander -
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
Gautama Buddha -
If the first half was a quest for success, the second half is a journey to significance.
Bob Buford -
Sleep away the years, sleep away the pain, wake tomorrow - a girl again.
Hal Summers -
Every day is like that, eight successive meetings on eight different topics, every one really important and interesting.
Peter Orszag -
The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.
Pablo Picasso
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Everywhere is here and every when is now.
Dante Alighieri -
When you ten, you know more about your team than you ever will know again.
Dan Shaughnessy -
There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they're private jokes that are amusing to you but no one else is going to enjoy them nearly as much and you worry you're going to have to take them out in the end.
Chad Harbach -
A southern moon is a sodden moon, and sultry. When it swamps the fields and the rustling sandy roads and the sticky honeysuckle hedges in its sweet stagnation, your fight to hold on to reality is like a protestation against a first waft of ether.
Zelda Fitzgerald -
When I was born ... the doctor came out to the waiting room and said to my father ... I'm very sorry. We did everything we could ... but he pulled through.
Jack Roy -
If the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.
Charles Dickens
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How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?
George Eliot -
I like a lot of Tom Cruise's roles, he's this action hero.
Scott Eastwood -
When you are serving volunteer professional military, you take an oath to the Constitution, not to a policy or a president and you swear to obey the lawful orders of the democratically elected government. And so at the end of the day you could table your personal political views and do your job.
Nathaniel Fick -
I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.
George Wald -
I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.
Michael Schur -
If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.
Lurlene McDaniel