Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes
I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic.Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
Laura Amy Schlitz -
The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
Xavier Dolan -
I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
Val Kilmer -
For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
Kate Christensen -
I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
Nathalie Kelley
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
Adam Brody -
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang -
As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
Kara Swisher -
When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
Becki Newton -
Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
Nancy Gibbs
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If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
Yossi Sarid -
Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
Tabitha King -
There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
Laura Ingraham -
Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
Carl D. Anderson -
The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
Ma Jian -
I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
Orson Scott Card
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Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.
Scott McNealy -
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
Sam Snead -
Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.
Lee Trevino -
It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.
Mike Farrell -
I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon