Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
Adam Mansbach -
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
Oliver Goldsmith -
I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
Francesca Annis -
That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
Earl Scruggs
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
Vikram Seth -
America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.
Nancy Pearcey -
Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
Zig Ziglar -
'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours,And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
Edward Young -
It's been cool to catch up, but I think I'm done with my exes. To be honest, I went out with flying colors on the majority of them.
Brantley Gilbert -
Franchesca and Sharkey, my French bulldogs, have their own blog. And they are brilliant at it.
Martha Stewart
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I like to get the body temperature up, the heart rate up. I'll do anywhere from 10 to 25 minutes either on a bike, a rower, a StairMaster, or a combination of the three of those. And then I'll normally run through a 20- to 30-minute session either on the Pilates reformer, the Cadillac, or the Pilates chair.
Jake Arrieta -
In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.
Alex Cox -
'The X-Files' was a hard sell because people didn't know what it was. The network didn't understand what it was that they were buying, and at the beginning, they wanted us to have closure. They wanted us to put the cuffs on the bad guy at the end of each episode.
Chris Carter -
We exist in a culture where trans people are constantly delegitimized.
Janet Mock -
It's glamorous when a movie is released, but then you feel disconnected from it. Someone asked if it wouldn't be more glamorous for me being on Broadway rather than Off Broadway, but I thought, 'What's the difference?' The Orpheum is a smaller house, that's all. And there are no mikes, so you just talk louder.
Brooke Adams -
If you are somebody who has a disease, you are not complaining when someone starts to do work for you. That is your hope.
Anne Wojcicki
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Satan cannot create anything new, cannot create anything at all. He must steal what God has created. Thus he twists love and God's wonderful gift of sex into lust and sadism and myriad perversions. He disfigures the heart's deep desire to worship God and persuades us to bow before lesser gods of lust or money or power.
Catherine Marshall -
I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.
J. C. Chandor -
They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
James Stockdale -
But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
Ian Hamilton Finlay -
A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec