Stephen Leacock (Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock) Quotes
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.Stephen Leacock
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
Wendy Cope -
I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
Octavia E. Butler -
When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
Salman Rushdie -
Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
Gail Simmons -
Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
Sam Kinison -
The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
I feel very comfortable with my trajectory because I do have a life; I can go on the subway, you know? And I've been able to do that my entire career, and I have friends who are huge movie stars and can't go on the subway, and I feel like that sucks.
Lake Bell -
Smart people tend to know what is happening in a group situation and how to deal with others in the most effective way. They ask good questions, listen to what others are saying, and stay engaged in conversations intently.
Patrick Lencioni -
'24' had to withstand accusations of being right-wing, but 'Homeland' is a far more liberal show.
Damian Lewis -
The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.
Patrick Wilson
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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I've never been in a competition before, and I said I'm going to go. I think - I just love to sing.
Fantasia Barrino -
I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.
Wayne Knight -
La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
Antonio Porchia -
I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.
Daniel Radcliffe -
With its declining population, with people moving out of the Far East, with an enormously powerful China in the east, I think the real destiny of Russia is to become closer to the West.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
Vik Muniz -
A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
For me, love is an enhanced state of kindness, compassion, service, respect, and humility, an emotion I feel we are all here to give and to receive.
Nathan East -
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
Stephen Leacock