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 -
When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.
J. J. Abrams
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People go online to do specific things and widgets allow them to get to the information they want immediately, rather than calling up Web pages.
Edward Charles Ford -
With each technological ‘revolution’, more energies began to be accessed, stored, and used than had been in the preceding epoch…On the whole, technological change is irreversible: whatever the nature of a technological revolution, it is always from the hoe to the plough, and not the other way around…Improvement generally means greater efficiency in the use of energy, materials, or information. It means greater speed, less investment of time and money, and operation on a larger scale.
Ervin Laszlo -
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
Edmund Burke -
I would say it's always been in me to want to have victorious songs. I sort of want my songs to have a feeling of victory, but through a lot of pain. Like, you're 75 percent to the top of the mountain and sometimes you fall back to the bottom, but hopefully by the end of the record you'll feel like there's no mountain at all.
Aaron Bruno -
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
Stephen Leacock