William Golding Quotes
The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.William Golding
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
Natalie du Toit -
Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
Daniel Bryan -
Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
Laura Schlessinger -
I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
Yvonne Strahovski -
I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
Sally Field -
The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
Felix Dennis
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
Laura Lang -
Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
Victor LaValle -
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren Buffett -
Your belief system saturates the space around you.
Aaron Huey -
So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
Vince McMahon -
I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.
Karl Rove
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
Dallas Roberts -
It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
Ramana Maharshi -
I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
Olly Murs -
I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
Patrick Kane -
I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
Quentin Tarantino -
For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
Abraham Verghese
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That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.
Taiye Selasi -
Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder upon it, and dwell upon it.
N. Scott Momaday -
President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.
Daniel Ellsberg -
I worked with Dionne Warwick, did shows with Bette Midler, and then I did the 25th anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Springsteen at the Garden. It was all important stuff because you want people to know you can work, you can sing, and you can still look good!
Darlene Love -
Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.
H. L. Mencken -
The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.
William Golding