Simon Travaglia Quotes
Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner.Simon Travaglia
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
Veerappa Moily -
All of life is a foreign country.
Jack Kerouac -
There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
Isaac Hayes -
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
Quintilian -
I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
Gabrielle Union
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
Wendy Kopp -
Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
Malcolm Forbes -
Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.
Fabrizio Moreira -
Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.
Salman Rushdie -
I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
Walter Kirn -
Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.
Gautam Gambhir
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Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.
Gary Wolf -
Ronald Isley is a musical genius.
R. Kelly -
I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be.
Edith Pearlman -
I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.
Caleb Carr -
I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.
Kate Voegele -
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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I think the Priem Minister has to be a butcher and know the joints.
R. A. Butler -
If a spiritual community only points back to where it has been or if it only digs in its heels where it is now, it is a dead end or a parking lot, not a way.
Brian D. McLaren -
There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.
Hippolyte Taine -
Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents it to the mind ... there is an immensity of facts which justify us in believing that the atoms of matter are in some way endowed or associated with electrical powers, to which they owe their most striking qualities, and amongst them their mutual chemical affinity.
Michael Faraday -
Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner.
Simon Travaglia