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We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years.

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• Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • People
  • Good
  • Power

• I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Feel

• I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Time
  • Work
  • Week

• I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Time
  • Night
  • Morning

• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Perfect

• I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Find
  • Donald
  • Rumsfeld

• We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Happiness

• I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Work
  • Fashion
  • Style

• It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Important
  • Interesting

• There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Me
  • Things
  • Try

• We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Better
  • Selfish

• It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.

  

  Vash Young
  • Man
  • Goal
  • Better

• I think what we've been able to do with 'Longmire' is balance this procedural with a bit of a soap opera, and it's a character study of this character, Walt Longmire, and the people around him.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Character
  • Study

• I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Think
  • Look
  • Down

• When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Water
  • Speak
  • Paris

• You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Want
  • You
  • Say

• After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Question
  • King
  • Judge

• The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.

  

  Clarence Day
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• If you look at the history of advertising, most of them were Jews, so it was only a matter of time before 'Mad Men' explored that area of advertising.

  

  Ben Feldman
  • Time
  • Men
  • History

• 'When I see guys in bars wearing the real fitted kind of Calvin Klein v-neck t-shirts I just want to go up to them and be like, 'Oh, do you work out? Your tricep looks so great - thank you.''

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• Working towards something you're excited about - as opposed to something that makes you feel badly about yourself - is what will keep you going back to the gym.

  

  Alison Sweeney
  • Gym

• Apple and Samsung are selling in such high volumes, and they're vertically integrated more and more, that it's very, very hard for anyone to compete against Apple and Samsung in the high-volume part of the smartphone or tablet market.

  

  John Sculley
  • High

• We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years.

  

  Yamaga Soko
  • Die