Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.
Thomas Carlyle
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
Walter Kirn
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When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.
Caitlin Moran
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I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
Mal Peet
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
Ralph Cudworth
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I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
Barry Mann
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
Lance Bass
NSYNC
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
Salma Hayek
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!
Oscar Hammerstein II
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It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.
Barbara Boxer
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I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.
Nathan Fillion
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Strange as it may seem to those who have read much of the screwball side of Hollywood life, I have never had to fight against an impulse to jump into a swimming-pool while dressed for the opera.
Irene Dunne
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The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.
William Hazlitt
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One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.
David Lipsky
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I try to catch at many a tuneLike petals of light fallen from the moon,Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,But they float away - for who can holdYouth, or perfume or the moon's gold?
Sara Teasdale
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Sometimes in the afternoon sky the moon would pass white as a cloud, furtive, lusterless, like an actress who does not have to perform yet and who, from the audience, in street clothes, watches the other actors for a moment, making herself inconspicuous, not wanting anyone to pay attention to her.
Marcel Proust
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Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.
Thomas Carlyle
