Edmund Clerihew Bentley Quotes
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
Larry Wall
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I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.
Rafael Nadal
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
Kate Klise
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
E. M. Forster
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
Karl G. Maeser
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
Kara Swisher
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One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, is that your money can bring success. I see results.
Sam Simon
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The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.
Nancy Kress
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'The idea of the feudal system is that the people on the top take care of the needs of those on the bottom, but I have seldom seen it work that way,' Wicked said. 'Yeah,' I said, 'it's like trickle-down economics; it only works if the people at the top are really good, decent people. The system is only as good as the people in power.'
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
Marcus Aurelius
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The better the singer's voice is, the harder it is to believe what they're saying. So I turn my weaknesses into an advantage.
David Byrne
Talking Heads
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I think about Laura Bush every once in awhile. She is a great supporter of the arts. I did a show at the Eisenhower Theater, and she would make a point of coming backstage. The relationship between Laura and George Bush was always that way where you felt like he was at his best behavior when he was in her company.
Bill Pullman
