Thomas Hardy Quotes
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.Thomas Hardy
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
Nawal El Saadawi -
It's always an honor to represent your country.
Sammy Sosa -
Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
Calamity Jane -
On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
Rachel Zoe -
I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
Randy Quaid -
I didn't go to school a lot.
Victoria Abril
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
Mandy Moore -
You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
M. J. Rose -
I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.
Hannah Kearney -
Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
Nancy Duarte -
There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just 'works.' I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.
Barbara Kruger
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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
Immanuel Kant -
It is all very well to sit back and hope for 'the best in this best of all possible worlds' but it's the course of personal and national suicide. Unless there is a vast alteration in man's civilization as it stumbles along today, man will not be here very long and none of us. Times must change.
L. Ron Hubbard -
What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?
Karen Blixen -
The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
He was looking at me, jsut as I'd thought he would be, but like Bert's, his light was not what I expected. No pity, no sadness: nothing had changed. I realized all the times I'd felt people stare at me, their faces had been pictures, abstracts. None of them were mirrors, able to reflect back the expression I thought one I wore, the feelings only I felt.
Sarah Dessen
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Chart positions are for people with manbags who get to work at 11 A.M. because they've been at a digital meeting.
Noel Gallagher Oasis -
I'm happy people look at me as a role model.
Lara Stone -
The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.
Emily Carr -
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
Thomas Hardy