R. M. Ballantyne Quotes
I am not prone to indulge in effeminate demonstration, but I am not ashamed to confess that when I gazed on the weather-beaten though ruddy countenance of my old companion, and observed the eager glance of his bright blue eyes, I was quite overcome, and rushed violently into his arms.R. M. Ballantyne
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For me, trying to connect our team together is so important. I know we'll play really well when our team gets really tight. So I want to make sure I connect with the players so that I can help them be at their best.
Dan Quinn -
My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
Takeshi Kitano -
O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
Quintus Ennius -
I see the work as a whole first. Then I compose the details. In working out, I always lose something. This cannot be avoided. There is always some loss when we materialize. But there is compensating gain in vitality.
Arnold Schoenberg -
She glimpsed the pink flowers of a magnolia protesting against the black-and-white half-timbered facade of a mock-Tudor side street.
Edward St Aubyn -
There's nothing like walking out and watching the people get turned on. Nothing in the world could replace it.
Louis Prima
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When I was first starting out as a kid, I tried to pad my resume with everything I had ever done - ice-skate, carry a tune. I can't dance for my life, but I can learn, so I'll tell people I can dance. I play the piano - I'm a really good pianist, actually.
Alexandra Daddario -
What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it.
James L. Brooks -
Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.
David Limbaugh -
For those of us that were involved from the first days of 'Battlestar,' we were encouraged to give of ourselves and to feel that we had a voice, not just as the character but as part of the family that created the show. It changed me, certainly.
Jamie Bamber -
I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
Kurt Vonnegut -
Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.
James Dyson
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We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
Lucretia Mott -
And here in Los Angeles, once again, I'm going to go down and be a witness. There's a guilty plea. I don't mind being on the witness stand, but I think they mind it a lot.
Patty Hearst -
I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day?
Mark Feuerstein -
May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.
Jonathan Carroll -
I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive.
Little Richard -
Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.
Anthony Daniels
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God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!
William Blake -
True visionaries are never lukewarm.
George Barna -
I am not prone to indulge in effeminate demonstration, but I am not ashamed to confess that when I gazed on the weather-beaten though ruddy countenance of my old companion, and observed the eager glance of his bright blue eyes, I was quite overcome, and rushed violently into his arms.
R. M. Ballantyne