William Empson Quotes
All those large dreams by which men long live well Are magic-lanterned on the smoke of hell.William Empson
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As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
Wayne Dyer -
I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
Samantha Bond -
Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
Karlheinz Stockhausen -
I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
Dan Marino -
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Lao Tzu -
I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
Raghav Bahl
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
Ramez Naam -
Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.
Ice T -
So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
Aaron Ashmore -
The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
Edmund Hillary -
The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
Fabrizio Moreira
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I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.
Kara Hayward -
I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
Damian Lewis -
Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.
Rand Paul -
Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.
Fabiola Gianotti -
Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
J. Paul Getty -
When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.
Wanda Sykes
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I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.
Tatiana Maslany -
I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
Adam Savage -
Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
Victoria Woodhull -
Living the dream is simply a form of living your passion.
Urijah Christopher Faber -
All those large dreams by which men long live well Are magic-lanterned on the smoke of hell.
William Empson