W. S. Gilbert Quotes
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I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
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George Burns was the father I never had.
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The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There's no sizzle, there's no grab. But it's the great lesson of serious music, that it invites you to listen, rather than demands that you listen.
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Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times.
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I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way it came and then shuffle the pages, like a giant deck of cards, and read the book in an entirely different order. It would be a different book, wouldn't it? It would be one of infinite books.
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Public downfalls are more painful and humiliating than private ones.
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If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone. When it's right, they'll come to you.
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My father had a handgun on the bedside table, and we were all taught to handle firearms.
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Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.
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Sending our Armed Forces across an international border clearly is a major political decision, with profound implications for Britain's international relations.
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Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.
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Dreams are the seedlings of reality.
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Well, don't we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
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Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him.
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But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;-we can perceive that events are brought about, not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular ease, but by the establishment of general laws.
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Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.
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The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed. If the sand is too coarse the mortar will be short or brittle . . . If the sand is too fine the cement will shrink and crack after it has been used.
