William Cowper Quotes
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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
Oscar de la Renta -
Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
Yul Brynner -
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
Basil Bunting -
Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
Nargis Fakhri -
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln -
Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
T Bone Burnett
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I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
Nadia Comaneci -
My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
Gary Allan -
I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
Eddie Marsan -
From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.
Zoe Kravitz -
Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
A. E. Housman -
There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
Carlos Santana Santana
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The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
Barry Eisler -
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
Edith Sitwell -
I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
Kate Adie -
Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.
Edmund Hillary -
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
Viktor E. Frankl -
You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
Vera Farmiga
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I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.
John Ridley -
I was a huge 'Breaking Bad' fan. I just loved the whole thing. Always interesting, always urgent. The stakes were always high.
John Roger Stephens -
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
Nancy Pelosi -
I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.
Mae Jemison -
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, - Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn, - mud from a muddy spring, - Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling, Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Folly ends where genuine hope begins.
William Cowper