Wilkie Collins Quotes
The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!Wilkie Collins
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
S. C. Gwynne -
For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
Taylor Swift -
If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
Rakul Preet Singh -
It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
Walter Russell Mead -
Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
Larry Craig -
I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
Van Morrison
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
Rafael Nadal -
I don't think there's any difference in my passion than when I was a young coach. I hope somebody in some way realizes I could be an asset, but we'll just wait and see.
Larry Brown -
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
J. B. Priestley -
I'm a man without a corporation.
Paddy Chayefsky -
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
Abraham Lincoln -
My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
Pam Grier -
In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.
Karen DeCrow -
It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
Van Wyck Brooks -
That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
Vin Scully -
I find the education I got from living in Derby and being streetwise and knowing the people that I know, the lessons that I had to learn growing up, have set me in good stead for this kind of working life.
Jack O'Connell -
If you believe you can only go so far, it is an obstacle.
Oprah Winfrey
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If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.
Nikola Tesla -
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. Benson -
Industry and institutes need to build smarter linkages.
Pallam Raju -
The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
Wilkie Collins