Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
Pat Metheny -
Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
Sam Shepard -
I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
Randy Newman -
I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
Gail Collins -
Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
Kate Adie -
During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.
Ibrahim Rugova
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And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtainThrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.
Edgar Allan Poe -
I take inspiration from everything around me, also relationships and friends. And the inside of my crazy head.
Ellie Goulding -
Did that remind anybody else of something?" "Yes," Eve said, tapping her lower lip with a bloodred fingernail. "How much I need to shave her head while she's sleeping.
Rachel Caine -
I take my camera pretty much everywhere and try to get the most diverse photos possible, since I get to travel to all the greatest cities in the country and see iconic architecture and things like that. I also like racing photos - like motorcycles, cars, stuff like that.
Christopher John Wilson -
Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.
I. L. Peretz -
I remember being with a girlfriend who asked me to look over some chess openings with her. I instantly fell asleep. I found that I could always take a nap in any situation by just looking at some opening variation - my eyes would shut right away.
Pal Benko
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I had all the confidence in Jay. I knew he was going to hit a big one for us.
Eli Manning -
My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn't like that.
Adam Sandler -
Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the horrors of life multiplied for some children, the image of childhood was increasingly exalted. Children became the last symbols of purity in a world which was seen as increasingly ugly.
William C. Somerville -
Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out.
Colonel Sanders -
Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
N. K. Jemisin -
Duane Allman was one of the best there ever was ... when you listen to him, you are hearing a truly gifted individual giving his all to the music, and there is nothing better than that. Duane played music the same way that he rode his motorcycle and drove his car .. he was a daredevil, just triple Scorpio, God's-on-my-side wide open... that was part of the romance and I loved Duane. I have nothing but admiration for him.
Forrest Richard Betts The Allman Brothers Band
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Totally captivating. Starhawk has created a magic land to which we can return at will for the kind of exotic romance and adventure we all crave. Her celebration of the richness of cultural diversity heralds the possibility of a mutually enhancing multicultural community. Here, too, is a vision of the paradigm shift that is essential for our very survival as a species on this planet.
Elinor Gadon -
There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
Walid Jumblatt -
I have come finally to a simple philosophy of work. I enjoy what I do and do the best I can. That is enough.
Maria Schell -
To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.
Scott Westerfeld