Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.
Walker Evans -
When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put it to sleep, that is a better way. Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep.
Flann O'Brien -
No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.
Andy Rooney -
My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.
Antoni Tapies
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Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.
Antonio Machado -
No sentence can end with because because, because is a conjunction
C. N. Annadurai -
Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of
L. E. J. Brouwer -
No matter what is happening in the world of appearances, beyond the veil of illusion there is love and only Love.
Marianne Williamson -
As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.
Tom Stoppard -
I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.
Gabrielle Bernstein
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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
Ernest Hemingway -
If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.
Virginia Woolf -
The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.
Albert Einstein -
There is no illusion great than fear.
Lao Tzu -
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
William Strunk, Jr. -
There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.
Plutarch
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Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.
Salman Khurshid -
Be classy. Anything but trashy.
Coco Chanel -
There is not only a lack of success for condoms. It's worse than that - they are utter failures.
Wendy Wright -
It's not the way it's supposed to be here, it's never been close to this since I've been here. Hopefully, once the new guys take over we can get things going and get back to where it used to be.
Al MacInnis -
The bible says, 'All things are possible.' I believe that.
Dolly Parton -
Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec