Michael Frayn Quotes
A toy car is a projection of a real car, made small enough for a child's hand and imagination to grasp. A real car is a projection of a toy car, made large enough for an adult's hand and imagination to grasp.Michael Frayn
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
Ralph Marston -
New York City is my favorite city in the world.
Halston Sage -
Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
Edmund White -
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. Wells -
There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
Gary Johnson -
I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
Laura Prepon
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
Wayne Newton -
This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
Gary Johnson -
The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.
Vanessa Bayer -
My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
Tate Donovan -
I'm not really a food connoisseur.
Aasif Mandvi -
I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
V. S. Naipaul
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie -
After almost 50 years in which federal spending averaged about 20 percent of GDP, Joe Sestak and Nancy Pelosi took federal spending to 25 percent. You know, that's a 25 percent increase in the size of the government overnight. That's what we - that's what we've got to rein in.
Pat Toomey -
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Ferdinand Foch -
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.
Rabindranath Tagore -
In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.
Edward Heath -
Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment. We simply cannot check inflation by keeping people out of work..
Jimmy Carter
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The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.
Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel -
The last thing we want to do is to go into an area and inflict unnecessary civilian casualties. One is too many.
Bob Ainsworth -
Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.
Antony Jay -
It's funny how sometimes how the public some people think I was born like this. That I maybe I sleep and I do big muscle, but its a lot of work to look like this and to be in this kind of condition.
Lou Ferrigno -
I clipped a Ferrari, hit the gravel trap at a fair old speed, which lifted the car up into the barrier, and then rolled a few times. I had no injuries or anything - I just had to wait for the marshals to right the car before I could get out.
Allan McNish -
A toy car is a projection of a real car, made small enough for a child's hand and imagination to grasp. A real car is a projection of a toy car, made large enough for an adult's hand and imagination to grasp.
Michael Frayn