Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
Washington Irving -
It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
Natalie du Toit -
A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
K. Flay -
It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
Umberto Eco -
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
Daniel Defoe -
You get steely nerves playing poker.
Nate Silver
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Shell has poured billions of dollars into offshore Arctic drilling, but no matter how much it spends, it cannot make the effort anything but a terrifying gamble. And if Shell, the most profitable company on Earth, can't buy its way to safety in Alaska, nobody can.
Frances Beinecke -
There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.
Daisy Berkowitz -
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I love design.
Venus Williams -
The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
There should be no one place or even a group of places where you should be. quote, 1969
Carl Andre
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
Anthony de Mello -
Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous anecdotes and divine revelation - endows the reader with the power of creating a story, and the listener with a sense of being present at the moment of creation.
Alberto Manguel -
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
Brian Ferneyhough -
My father's music is all I remember from my childhood.
Dawn Angeliqué Richard -
I really love Las Vegas. It's, like, my favorite place to be. I love to DJ out there. It is the place to be as a DJ.
Pauly D -
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
Arnold Newman
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
Fran Tarkenton -
I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.
D. H. Lawrence -
There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.
Ernest Hemingway -
There's a dance happening on both sides of the table. Individuals are giving their personal and career values a lot more weight when it comes to finding a company that aligns with both. At the same time, companies are becoming a lot more transparent about their core values as an organization and the types of people they want to attract.
Kathryn Minshew -
Me & the dread yo, give em some head blow Long as he know he keep me flier than a Red Bull
Nicki Minaj -
My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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