H. G. Wells Quotes
After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.H. G. Wells
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
Edmund Phelps -
I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
Natalie Martinez -
The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
Oliver North -
I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
Rainn Wilson -
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
Paddy Ashdown -
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
Sam Mendes -
I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
Karl Kraus -
I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
Ziggy Marley -
William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
Patrick Stewart -
Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
Nadia Comaneci
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving -
I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
Vince Carter -
That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.
Abraham Lincoln -
I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
Farrah Fawcett -
I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.
Oscar Isaac -
You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
Harold Prince
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The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
Carlos Fuentes -
I think older women still have a full life.
Betty White -
A player has no use for an agent. None.
Lou Holtz -
Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.
Lao Tzu -
After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.
H. G. Wells