Thomas Bulfinch Quotes

The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.

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• Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Long
  • Thoughts
  • Impossible

• The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Long
  • Women
  • Age

• The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
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  • Long
  • Day

• I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

  

  Sally Field
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  • Long
  • Ego

• As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.

  

  Vicente Fox
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  • Economy
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• I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Music
  • Long
  • Live

• The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.

  

  Sam Kean
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  • Brain
  • Memories

• As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.

  

  Gary Bauer
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  • Family
  • Single

• My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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  • Thinking
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• I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

  

  Candace Bushnell
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  • You
  • Difficult

• I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.

  

  M. J. Rose
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  • She
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• I'm open to all kind of scripts. As long as there's enough scope to perform, I'd take up the offer. In fact, before Yuvan and 'TT' happened, I got an opportunity to work with a top actor-director combination. But my height proved to be a setback.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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  • Work
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• In Utah, one word sums up our business prowess: investment. Simply put, we know we can't have long-term economic growth and maintain Utah's enviable quality of life without making some critical investments.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Possible

• We had to forge an alliance of strength based not on colour but on commitment to the total abolition of apartheid and oppression; we would seek allies, of whatever colour, as long as they were totally agreed on our liberation aims.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Long
  • Commitment
  • Strength

• I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Time
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  • Fight

• Life isn't long enough for love and art.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Long
  • Art

• When you model, you don't really have control over your image. It can be a good thing, it can be a bad thing. It can be a good thing in the sense that, actually, you have to get reintroduced to yourself. You don't always get that opportunity in your normal life. You can kind of hide from yourself.

  

  Philomena Kwao
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• If you have market power like Nike, you can set terms that are much tougher because athletes value the endorsement of Nike - it means as much to them as it does to the company.

  

  John Quelch
  • Power
  • Value

• A new report says ISIS is trying to recruit professionals like doctors, engineers, and accountants. Sorry, kids, even ISIS says they're not hiring liberal arts majors.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Sorry

• A strong and enthusiastic niche audience can push a topic into mainstream consciousness with speed and force.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Strong
  • Speed
  • Push

• If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Way
  • Knows
  • Ifs

• The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.

  

  Thomas Bulfinch
  • Long
  • Candidates
  • Knighthood