Steven Heighton Quotes
Boredom is the laboratory where new enthusiasms prepare themselves.
Steven Heighton
Quotes to Explore
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Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
Gary Allan
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I've played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygamist.
Madison Davenport
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I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.
J. Cole
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You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.
Kevin James
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Fundamentals are the most valuable tools a player can possess. Bunt the ball into the ground. Hit the cutoff man. Take the extra base. Learn the fundamentals.
Dick Williams
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The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.
Aristotle
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How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod.
William Shakespeare
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It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and that the decrees therein contained are absolutely true and inviolable. But I should have in your place added that, though Scripture cannot err, its expounders and interpreters are liable to err in many ways; and one error in particular would be most grave and most frequent, if we always stopped short at the literal signification of the words.
Galileo Galilei
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You men do not understand the delights of a glance, of a pressure of the hand... but as for me, I swear to you that, when I listen to your voice, I feel such a deep, strange bliss that the most passionate kisses could not take its place.
Mikhail Lermontov
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I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.
Ritchie Blackmore
Blackmore's Night
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Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.
Philip James Bailey
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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.
George Bernard Shaw
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
Erica Jong
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Writing about Jerusalem was very stressful; every word counts.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Hooves clomping over the whitewashed planks, Doren sprinted along the boardwalk after Rondus, a portly satyr with butterscotch fur and horns that curved away from each other. Puffing hard, Rondus cut through a gazebo and started down the stairs to the field. Only a few steps behind, Doren went airborne and slammed into the heavyset satyr. Together they pitched violently forward into the grass, staining their skin green.
Brandon Mull
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I want to be there for the last note of 'Freebird' when that happens.
Johnny Van Zant
Lynyrd Skynyrd
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Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
Ruth Gordon
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Boredom is the laboratory where new enthusiasms prepare themselves.
Steven Heighton
