Samuel Beckett Quotes
I didn’t feel well, but they told me I was well enough. They didn’t say in so many words that I was as well as I would ever be, but that was the implication.Samuel Beckett
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
Wallace Shawn -
I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
Kate Moss -
When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
Karl Marlantes -
Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
Sammi Hanratty -
There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
Taylor Lautner
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
Lata Mangeshkar -
I never lie to my fans.
Becky G -
A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
Otto Penzler -
There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
Calvin Klein -
I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.
Laura Mvula -
Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.
Walter Dean Myers
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
Samuel Pepys -
I love anything that involves the ocean. Swimming, snorkelling or surfing are all fun, which distracts from your mind that you are actually doing a workout. Being outdoors in the sun and the salt water is great for freeing your mind and feeling alive.
Samantha Stosur -
When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
Sam Rayburn -
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Lonely women destroy themselves; lonely men threaten the world.
Victor LaValle -
When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
Fionnula Flanagan
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Bill Hader does a really good impression of me.
Fred Armisen -
What we usually do to great men and women is relegate them to homogenised heroism. Their words and actions become soundbites and images in a way that gives us an excuse not to act bravely in our own lives.
David Oyelowo -
I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.
Jane Chen -
Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.
Umberto Saba -
Recalling an old magistrate's words to a young attorney, The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella.
Sam Ervin -
I didn’t feel well, but they told me I was well enough. They didn’t say in so many words that I was as well as I would ever be, but that was the implication.
Samuel Beckett