Teju Cole Quotes
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Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
Warren Spahn -
All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.
Yoko Ono -
I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.
Laura Trott -
If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
Zooey Deschanel -
If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.
Tamara Mellon -
I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
Quincy Jones
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The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.
Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson -
My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.
Alan Hovhaness -
Sit with those who constantly repent, for they have the softest hearts.
Umar -
I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.
Lynn Barber -
The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
B. W. Powe
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If you like your healthcare plan, you'll be able to keep your healthcare plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.
Barack Obama -
At the top of this list has to be "get in that ass". It's the ultimate Leonism to get you through life.
J. B. Smoove -
We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them the total sum of who we are.
Robin LaFevers -
She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.
Jane Austen -
THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is beautifully written, perfectly paced, expertly structured, and simply unputdownable. Koryta is an absolute master.
Deon Meyer -
Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.
Hilary Mantel