Honore de Balzac Quotes
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I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.
Gabourey Sidibe -
Go West, young man.
Aaron Burr -
I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
Calvin Klein -
It was a hole in one contest and I had a three.
Abe Lemons -
Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.
Victoria Aveyard -
Incompossible, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.
Ambrose Bierce
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A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.
Louise Penny -
I struggled for so long to try to create a career.
Jessica Chastain -
Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before.
Ari Fleischer -
I have been a producer and director for many years, and I can say it's really difficult for women, although the women in Mexico suffer as much as other women in the world. The first thing is to get respect for the work you do. Then it is about getting the money. And this respect comes little by little over the years.
Adriana Barraza -
When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But I am comfortable talking in Spanish. I am not flawless or fluent, but I am comfortable. It takes me a day or two speaking a lot of Spanish to get back into a rhythm.
David Dewhurst -
I see a lot of art; we see a lot of music, films at Sundance... that influences me and informs me more than theater just because I make a bigger effort to see other art forms.
Elizabeth Marvel
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If a person is a U.S. citizen, and he is on the battlefield in Afghanistan or Iraq trying to attack our troops, he will face the full brunt of the U.S. military response.
John O. Brennan -
I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.
Joan Baez -
The print-made split between head and heart is the trauma which affects Europe from Machiavelli till the present. (p. 193)
Marshall McLuhan -
I liked writing with my friends and making our own little stories. Making a movie like 'Spider-Man' never even crossed my mind.
Jon Watts -
A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like air in a tornado.
Kip Thorne -
The offensive line was getting a real good push, ... I feel if I can see a little hole, I can get to it, and that was happening today.
Anthony Charles Edwards
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The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is. God uses whatever is usable in a life, both to speak and to act, and those who insist on fireworks in the sky may miss the electricity that sparks the human heart.
Barbara Brown Taylor -
The ideal hole is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number, gives the fullest advantage for accurate play, stimulates players to improve their game, and never becomes monotonous.
Alastair Mackenzie -
Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.
Elizabeth Edwards -
A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.
Victor Hugo -
Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.
Honore de Balzac