Orhan Pamuk Quotes
I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.Orhan Pamuk
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
A. S. Byatt -
We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
Rand Paul -
You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
J. Martin Kohe -
The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
Harold Warner -
With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
Cara Buono
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
Ian Mckellen -
Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
Yuna -
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint Augustine -
All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
Manal al-Sharif -
A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
Sam Graves
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
Karen Robards -
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
e. e. cummings -
There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
J. William Fulbright -
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
Oliver Cromwell -
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
Karl Urban
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I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.
Yoko Ono -
Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got seven other planets. The sun? No, the sun is one of those dots in the night sky. The Milky Way? No, it's one of a hundred billion galaxies. And the universe - maybe it's countless other universes.
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrificed to your avarice?
Olaudah Equiano -
I'm a California girl, right? I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation.
Meghan Markle -
For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.
Oscar Wilde -
I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
Orhan Pamuk