T. H. White Quotes
You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?
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Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
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I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.
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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
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Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.
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What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him.
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Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.
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As a physician, I'm somewhat an advocate of patients. How come, before Mike Webster, no NFL player was told or knew that there was an intrinsic risk of brain damage from playing football?
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The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes.
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My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.
