Sinclair Lewis (Harry Sinclair Lewis) Quotes
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
F. Sionil Jose -
No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
Oliver Cromwell -
I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.
Frances McDormand -
It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.
Haley Reinhart -
It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
Abraham Maslow -
The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
Lamar Alexander
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
Wanda Jackson -
I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.
Aaron Eckhart -
I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.
Victoria Justice -
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
E. L. Doctorow -
I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.
Ian Mcewan -
If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.
Venus Williams
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CNN is an American symbol of independent journalism and First Amendment free speech. My board and I are clear: CNN will remain completely independent from an editorial perspective.
Randall L. Stephenson -
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
Albert Einstein -
I want to shake off the dust of this one-horse town. I want to explore the world. I want to watch TV in a different time zone. I want to visit strange, exotic malls...I want to live, Marge! Won't you let me live?
Dan Castellaneta -
In America, the land of the permanent revolution, ulcers and cancer often become, for the men at the top, the contemporary equivalent of the guillotine.
Ted Morgan -
It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.
E. Lockhart
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One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
George Washington -
Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
Lady Bird Johnson -
If you can't do, you had best shut up.
Esther Forbes -
War is ninety percent information.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
People read fiction for emotion-not information.
Sinclair Lewis